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masthead-container not hidden moves movie down, replied by Marooned

Marooned — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:37:23 +0000

whenever I update your script, I need to manually add
#masthead-container {display: none}
because #masthead-container is empty and moves video box down for few pixels - navbar (play, scroll) is then seen cut in half

can you add it to your script?

Playlist Panel, replied by KaylaKaze

KaylaKaze — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:25:01 +0000

I managed to fix it myself after finally finding out where GreaseMonkey settings are stored, but autoplaying still doesn't work, for playlists or quicklists.

Playlist Panel, replied by KaylaKaze

KaylaKaze — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:08:17 +0000

The quicklist panel shows but there's no "playlist" panel for when you're watching a non-quicklist playlist.

comment box, replied by MooGoo

MooGoo — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:12:43 +0000

Youtube changed the id on the comment div element, so it got lost, as it were. Fixed with the latest update.

I miss this plug-in :( I still use it, but..., replied by StrawTurkey

StrawTurkey — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:08:49 +0000

Ooooh, update, May 11th. You're awesome.

And I understand about other work. I am immensely grateful for any time you spend on this. -- I'll go and check out what's up now. Thanks. :)

I wish there were any way I could help out, but, it'd take a lot of learning just to figure out how any of this works, much less keep up with changes.

Well, good luck in everything.

- Fan.

I miss this plug-in :( I still use it, but..., replied by MooGoo

MooGoo — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:42:23 +0000

What can I say...sometimes I am on the ball with this, and other times not so much.

Recently I've had a lot more real web work to do which has delayed my capacity for maintaining this script. At the same time, as the changes on YouTube build up, fixing the script becomes more imposing, especially since this time around I had three or four half implemented features in the works when I got sidetracked. And I'm a lazy bastard.

I'm not sure if you were aware of this script when it was first posted about 2 years ago. It worked fine until October 07 when YouTube pushed out a major overhaul to their video page and permanently broke the script. The changes were so extensive that the only real option was a total rewrite, which I did not get around to doing for almost a year. Hope no one was holding their breath.

Anyway, it should work better for now, thanks for sticking around!

I miss this plug-in :( I still use it, but..., replied by StrawTurkey

StrawTurkey — Sun, 03 May 2009 10:40:33 +0000

It's inching along like an old car now, and I wish I knew the JavaScript to fix it. But YouTube is constantly changing itself, so even if I figured one thing out, it would be broken soon enough anyway.

I just want to say, I still really love the idea behind this plugin. And, in fact, broken as parts may be, I still use it, (in combination with the HQ+720p Ultimate plugin http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/31864 ), and I guess I wouldn't have it any other way. It's just so much easier on my eyes, and the ability to downscale and upscale things, it keeps me from minding the differences in quality from videos, if it's low-quality, I can just notch it down, or, high quality, I can bring it all the way up, but then 100% is usually too close, so I like to have it at 90%, and, with this plugin, I can have it anywhere I want, and that's great. :)

If you're still around, it'd be awesome if you'd ever look into updating this again. But, it'd be a labor of love, and I'm sure you don't have an abundance of free time to spend on making scripts like this, so, whatever. -- I still love it, I just wish it would work as perfectly as it used to.

- A Happy Fan

comment box, replied by user12

user12 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:42:41 +0000

how can i activate the comment box?

YouTube modified their search box, replied by StrawTurkey

StrawTurkey — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:43:36 +0000

That does the trick. Thanks, Moo!

YouTube modified their search box, replied by MooGoo

MooGoo — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:28:27 +0000

Looks like they added a bunch of padding to 'form.search-form'

Sticking "#masthead .search-form { padding-right: 0 !important; }" in the CSS should fix it.

I'll add that with the next update.

shortcut keys for toggle Sider bar , replied by MooGoo

MooGoo — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:18:17 +0000

I've thought about this in the past. It probably would not be too difficult to implement a handful of fixed keyboard shortcuts. Death to mice and such. I'll add it to the list.

If I didn't know any better..., replied by MooGoo

MooGoo — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:11:39 +0000

That's a neat animation.

I see the problem. I guess there is two sides to this one. In the way it currently is, it looks like crap when the sidebar is real skinny, but all the links and buttons and what not are still accessible. With your modifications, things look fine at any sidebar width, but you loose access to clipped elements. Of course you can easily regain access by just making the sidebar bigger temporarily, so the way that looks better might be preferable. This is probably more important for smaller non widescreen monitors, I have the luxury to keep the sidebar pretty wide on a 1920x1200 screen.

That tiny top bar used to be toggleable in the Sidebar settings thing, then YouTube went and stuck it inside #masthead, so now you cannot hide it individually. It should be an easy fix, and I should probably remove '#non-logo-masthead' from the list as it does not exist anymore.

shortcut keys for toggle Sider bar , replied by StrawTurkey

StrawTurkey — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:07:50 +0000

That sounds like a good idea. Also, it'd be cool to have some sort of hotkey to make the sidebar disappear and reappear. (Go to 0px, and then back to whatever it was prior to that.)

But these are all just wishes and dreams. :) Until MooGoo makes magic.

shortcut keys for toggle Sider bar , replied by sonychen

sonychen — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:53:11 +0000

if there possible to make sidebar box toggle-able, and use shortcut keys to control toggle/un-toggle? like sidebar in google reader we can toggle "all items" & "friend's share item", but that use mouse to select show/unshow, i think use shortcut keys will must faster and easier, eg I>information, C>comments, R>Related Videos, etc.

what do you think?

Congratulations (and Some Request for the Future), replied by -=[ KaaMoS ]=-

-=[ KaaMoS ]=- — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:22:36 +0000

Thank you so much for your replies, but unfortunately I couldn't make that Script working well, so I'm using the Script called "Youtube Automatic Fmt=18 Adder".

Look: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/31864

I know that's quite old, but worked for me.

One more time, thanks for replying me. I'm quite newbie and all of these things are awesome for me.
I thing I'm loving Firefox!!! :D

Have lost the settings icon, replied by -=[ KaaMoS ]=-

-=[ KaaMoS ]=- — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:21:08 +0000

Thank you so much!
NICE!!! :D

YouTube modified their search box, replied by StrawTurkey

StrawTurkey — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:06:16 +0000

Just a little bit. Now there's a lot of white space between it and the search button. Or so it seems.

I'm not sure the code that would fix it.

Have lost the settings icon, replied by leecovuk

leecovuk — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:52:10 +0000

Great, thanks Moogoo.

If I didn't know any better..., replied by StrawTurkey

StrawTurkey — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:11:20 +0000

I put together an animation of the two scrolling sidebars in action, one modified (on the right), and the unmodified one on the left:

http://img300.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fullwo... (648px × 540px, approx. 1.2MB)

As well as separately:
Unmodified (no changes): http://img259.imageshack.us/my.php?image=google...
Modified (my changes): http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=google...

If I didn't know any better..., replied by StrawTurkey

StrawTurkey — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:42:04 +0000

I guess adding in:

#masthead div.master-sprite {\
	overflow: hidden;\
	width: 500px;\
}\

seems to do it.

And, actually, I decided to get rid of the tiny top bar (with Account Name, and Quicklist, and Help, and SignOut), by putting display: none;\. It doesn't really do much for me. (Maybe there could be an option to remove it?)

I'll try to make a couple screenshots for you, to show you how the code changes things. As always, your script is still the awesomest GreaseMonkey script I use. I couldn't go back to "regular" YouTube anymore, and I don't know how the average person manages to do it. And I really appreciate you keeping up with all their changes and breaking of things. And I've picked up little bits of JavaScript in the mean time, too.

- StrawTurkey

If I didn't know any better..., replied by StrawTurkey

StrawTurkey — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:25:40 +0000

Part one of the third thing (keeping the top #masthead from splitting into too many pieces) is adding into #masthead div.user-info:

	width: 500px;\
	overflow: hidden;\

It seems like I had an easier way to do it the first time, but this seems to work. I'm still figuring out what to do about the "Home | Videos | Channel | Community" bar.

If I didn't know any better..., replied by StrawTurkey

StrawTurkey — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:51:03 +0000

I'll list out the order I've made things, now that I'm looking at them. I find it works pretty well:

1. #masthead 2. #watch-channel-vids-div 3. #watch-ratings-view []. (deactivated) #watch-channel-videos-panel 5. #quicklistDiv 6. #watch-vid-title 7. #watch-related-videos-panel 8. #watch-video-quality-setting 9. #watch-comments-stats []. (greyed-out) #non-logo-masthead 11. #watch-actions-area

I like having #masthead at the top, but currently, when the sidebar is too narrow, and every bit takes up a line, that's about all you see. I'd had it to a hidden overflow, I think, (I'm not sure if it was a set width, say 600px), which meant it would stay on a single line, and the elements would just disappear if the sidebar was too narrow.

So I'm working on what I can figure out. I threw in the two code changes I made, and those still work right. I was on my way to figuring out the #masthead deal, before YouTube made their adjustment again.

If I didn't know any better..., replied by StrawTurkey

StrawTurkey — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:39:12 +0000

I had done three things. Due mostly to the way YouTube has changed things from a few months back (things that used to be okay). In this case, I lost the code that I had figured out, so, as of yesterday, I was still experimenting, and had only perfected two of the three things I change. I was going to write it out to share with you, but I never completed it.

One thing I do, for Firefox, at least, is to make sure that the horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the sidebar disappears, which is adding overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical;\ to div#ovSide, instead of overflow: auto;\.

The other is to put a determined width to the "Related Videos" and a hidden overflow, because, as of a month or two ago (or maybe with their HD interface changes), YouTube changed it from the way it had been with sort of a single entry per "line" of video stacks, to overflowing into other lines, so that the video image might be one line, and then the text under it, to a couple of lines, depending on how squished it was. I know that's not very well explained, but here's the code I put in:

	#watch-related-videos-panel {\
	width: 360px;\
	overflow: hidden;\
	}\

Normally, if the width is less, let's say you make the sidebar 100 pixels, suddenly you'll get a lot of white space, and a lot of distance between each video entry as it tries to squish it together. In this case, if you extend the sidebar wider than 360px, you'll get a box with a sidebar that sticks to the left, but that isn't really a problem. When it's less than 360px, you lose the scrollbar, but things don't try to squish, so you still have your stacks of video images at the same distance, and you can just use the scrollwheel to get up and down.

The third thing I was working on, that breaks the easiest, and broke with the last YouTube code change (whatever number of days ago), was one that hides the overflow of the #masthead tab bars (Home | Videos | Channel | Community). Right now, unmodified, those will take up several lines if the sidebar is squished far enough, and I like to have those at the top, so, unmodified, that squishes all the other info even lower.

I'd fixed it and thought I'd saved a backup, but on installing the new one, I lost the backup. (It was broken as of YouTube's changes anyway.) I think it was done by modifying overflow: hidden into some section of the masthead and userbar.

So, those three things. I was going to make a thread to tell you how I'd perfected everything, but, in this case, with the code breaking, I'm still figuring it out. Thanks for modifying it again, though. I'll let you know what I can figure out.

If I didn't know any better..., replied by MooGoo

MooGoo — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:14:16 +0000

Sometimes I hate youtube...

Fixed it, but this time I threw a try catch block around the entire section of code, so next time youtube frells up their page, hopefully, things will just look funny instead of breaking.

I'm curious though, what modifications were you making?

If I didn't know any better..., replied by StrawTurkey

StrawTurkey — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:00:19 +0000

I'd say that, in the last couple hours, YouTube broke what you fixed yesterday.

It could just be me, and my settings, but I was modifying your code around, and it was working. Now it isn't working, and, in the mean time, I don't think I've done anything.

I even went and reverted to your newest, and non-modified, form. The video won't resize and the settings icon is missing again.

I really appreciate the update. I hope it's just me with the problem.