Discussion on BetterDir | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by FF3user

FF3user — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:10:38 +0000

Screenshots of how it looks on testpage: http://www.shmoocon.org/2007/videos/ :
Original by 'Mark Pilgrim' with 'Johannes la Poutre's fix (or else it won't change anything): http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/4079/origina...
'nitro322' / jared's mod: http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/7131/jaredmo...
Edit: Jared gave me some guidelines and his modification, I think looks a lot better if you change "font-size property on line 256".
Change it to for example '80%' instead: http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/6353/80perce...
or
'75%': http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/653/75percen...

Archived Comments, replied by nitro322

nitro322 — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:44:59 +0000

Thanks, Johannes. Great tip!

If anyone is interested, I made a further modification to this script. Instead of just "prettying up" the page, I also have it rewrite the file names so that the full names are displayed. By default, Apache seems to truncate the file names to the first 20 characters, which is pretty darn annoying on pages like this:
http://www.shmoocon.org/2007/videos/

If anyone's interested in this modification, you can grab it from the following site:

https://www.legroom.net/howto/firefox

The schmoocon link I posted above makes for a good test case if you're curious to see how it works in comparison to the original script.

Mark, thanks for making this possible to begin with. :-)

Archived Comments, replied by Johannes la Poutre

Johannes la Poutre — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:36:37 +0000

Quick fix for the "Component not available" error: change lines 176 and 177 to:

tr.addEventListener("mouseover", function() { this.className = 'ruled'; return false; }, false);
tr.addEventListener("mouseout", function() { this.className = ''; return false; }, false);

Archived Comments, replied by Sean M. Burke

Sean M. Burke — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:49:32 +0000

Under FF 1.5 and GM 0.6.4, this does nothing for me besides just throwing the mysterious error "Component is not available."

Archived Comments, replied by Michael Bierman

Michael Bierman — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 03:26:25 +0000

I am having problems with FF 1.5 and GM 0.6.4.

Archived Comments, replied by Arteekay

Arteekay — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:24:02 +0000

Doesn't appear to be functional under Firefox 1.5 beta and/or greasemonkey 0.6.2

Archived Comments, replied by AwfkiWhistler

AwfkiWhistler — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:26:12 +0000

I love the look but often get a blank page and have to refresh several times before the directory shows up.

Archived Comments, replied by Josh Matthews

Josh Matthews — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:46:19 +0000

I love the minimalised and elegant look of the new directory views.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:00 +0000

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