Discussion on Subtle Alert Box Replacement | Userscripts.org

nice-alert.user.js, replied by NV

NV — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:30:12 +0000

I've wrote very similar script. Nice Alert: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43780

It has some fancy animation. Check out!

Archived Comments, replied by jfty.009260

jfty.009260 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:24:23 +0000

Ahh, I see. Well thanks for explaining the issue.

Archived Comments, replied by lucideer

lucideer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:08:07 +0000

Hey jfty, sorry it took me so long to reply, not keeping enough of an eye on this page. Hopefully you see this - if not... oh well.

The problem with your suggestion is that confirmation boxes need to be synchronous. They're returning information to the script (Yes or No), so they have to freeze the browser and wait for user input before the script can proceed. As far as I know... there's no way to do this other than the browsers native methods (i.e. the existing confirm() box) - I'm fairly inexperienced in JS so if someone knows a way.... please do tell.

I thought of maybe hanging the script with a loop while the confirm box waits for a user respose, but I'm pretty sure that'd cause the button EventListeners to hang as well. And loops can be dodgy things to work with.

Archived Comments, replied by jfty.009260

jfty.009260 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:36:09 +0000

Hmm...this is quite cool. Wouldn't it be better to add support for the other kinds of boxes (confirmation boxes, etc.) but keep the buttons intact? I dunno, just a suggestion.

Archived Comments, replied by lucideer

lucideer — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:04:34 +0000

Sorry sorry sorry...

I did actually test in Firefox, just accidentally uploaded older copy. Script updated now.

Thanks again Mikado for correcting my submissions, I'd be useless without you. ;D

Archived Comments, replied by Mikado

Mikado — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:00:00 +0000

Seems that author only tested it on Opera.

Archived Comments, replied by jfty.009260

jfty.009260 — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:36:31 +0000

Doesn't seem to work. Tried it on W3Schools' demos.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:20 +0000

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