Script Summary: Expands any "thumbnail" and "small" images on the page and displays a "large" or "preview" versions on mouse hover in Flickr.
This is for those who, like me, are tired of looking at small images in Flickr and having to load an entire page just to look at a larger version of an interesting-looking thumbnail.
Enjoy and let me your feedback and comments.
Features:
- Shows a preview of almost any image under the mouse.
- You can configure how large the preview image can be. You can also let the script autosize the image according to your browser window size.
- The script even works on images that were loaded via XHR after the page has loaded.
- The script tries to avoid showing the preview image near your mouse cursor to allow a more streamlined experience. You can also set the preview image to follow your mouse cursor.
- Even when the preview image is large and hides the image that you were about to click, you can instead click the preview image.
- You can access the script's settings/configuration page by clicking on the tools icon
at the bottom right-hand corner of the page.
- Holding down Ctrl key will keep the popup preview image from disappearing. This means that you can right-click and save the preview image.
Version Log:
- 2012/07/20:
- Tweaked the preview image positioning algorithm. - 2012/07/16:
- urlLookup: If the requested image size is not available, store the next best image's URL for quick lookup later on. This only persists for the current page load.
- Remove "spaceball" image protection elements from the DOM whenever we can.
- Removed the uso updater script dependence because Greasemonkey 0.9.18 and above already comes with an auto-updater. - 2012/06/06:
- Fine-tuned the image positioning algorithm.
- Added "Ctrl" key override to persist preview image. - 2012/06/04:
- Added support for a delay timer and a corresponding configuration item under settings.
- Added support for the setting the preview image to "Snap to Cursor". - 2011/12/17:
-Fixed the unnecessary image requests issue from previous update. Minor bug fixes. - 2011/12/14:
- Now if a large version of the image is not available, the script will try to load the next smaller size instead of displaying the generic "Image unavailable" image. I may need to revisit this code later to prevent possible unnecessary image requests. - 2011/11/10:
- Added configuration options to let the users specify "Auto-Size" width and height percentages. - 2011/11/01:
- Added configuration options to let the users choose which images to expand.
