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Dinosaur Comics' Easter Eggs

Shows the alt text / comments subject / RSS title beneath each comic at qwantz.com

This script puts the alt text, comments subject and RSS title under each qwantz.com comic.

Updated 28 Nov 2006: The RSS title has now been fixed properly thanks to Ryan Hughes.






Jul 23, 2007
Ben Bleything Scriptwright

Well, I wrote a replacement for this script a few weeks ago, but didn't want to post it here until I had given Oliver a chance to grab my changes... however, he hasn't responded to my email yet and I got impatient :)

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/10755

Oliver: offer still stands, just let me know.

 
Jul 22, 2007
DerGuteMoritz User

Same here! Noooooooooes!! Well, time to engage my JavaScript hacking skillz!

 
Jul 20, 2007
Hosferatu User

That fix still doesn't work for me.

 
Jul 18, 2007
casret User

I sent a patch to Oliver, but in case he's gone from the net again, but to get it to work I changed the 5 on line 40 to 1 and deleted lines 49-65.

 
Jun 29, 2007
oliver dyas Script's author

Sorry, I've not been on the web for the past few weeks so I hadn't noticed the script had broken.
I'll tell y'all when it's fixed.

 
Jun 26, 2007
Jonnty Scriptwright

The format of the website has changed recently, according to that news post earlier, and consequently the script now doesn't work. On the plus side though the RSS title is now on the page, so no second GET now required.

 
Jun 20, 2007
DerGuteMoritz User

Also, I've got the NoScript and the Firebug add-ons installed. Perhaps they cause some serious trouble??

 
Jun 20, 2007
DerGuteMoritz User

I don't see any of the easter-eggs ever since that ad bar appeared below the comics. Only after having issued a request for a different page, they suddenly appear for a moment. That's odd, isn't it? I'm on Firefox 2.0.0.4 under Linux.

 
Jun 12, 2007
oliver dyas Script's author

Please say how it's broken -- it works fine for me

 
Jun 6, 2007
DerGuteMoritz User

Oh no, is it broken?

 
Dec 7, 2006
mario User

Alright, that did it. I was just being dumb -_-

 
Dec 6, 2006
oliver dyas Script's author

@mario: Are you using the latest version? The RSS title should be pretty much unbreakable now, although it requires an extra page GET and so may not show up immediately the page loads.

 
Dec 5, 2006
mario User

For the RSS Feed Title, I'm getting a blank. Is this only happening to me, or did Ryan break the internet again?

 
Nov 1, 2006
oliver dyas Script's author

Please disregard previous comment. You now turn on transcription by going to the menu Tools > Greasemonkey > User Script Commands > Toggle Qwantz Transcription, and then refreshing the page.

 
Nov 1, 2006
oliver dyas Script's author

Might I recommend the Image Zoom extension from https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/139/ ?

In any case unless more people want this I'd prefer not to clutter the page up too much so showing the comic content is off by default -- turn it on by going to the "Manage User Scripts" dialog and editing the first line of the script to be true.

 
Oct 30, 2006
AJ Hawks User

One thought/request.... sometimes reading the text in the comics gets hard on my eyes. Sice all of the content is stored in a META tag (name=content), could you show that as well?

 
Oct 25, 2006
Hosferatu User

Hi, just wanted to let you know that a site change seems to have broken the RSS feed title. It now only shows "Begin Project Wonderful ad code:" instead of the RSS title.

 
Jun 6, 2006
oliver dyas Script's author

Thants for pointing out the RSS feed title -- I've updated the script to show it.

 
Jun 2, 2006
Hosferatu User

Excellent, I had tried to write this exact script to show both the comment text along with the alt text but i just could not master javascript enough. I just found out that there is another easter egg which is the title of the livejournal feed "artical heading" which is on on another page (the link on the bottom left called "LJ Feed"). I don't suppose there is a way to also fetch that easter egg and display it along with the other two is there?

 
Mar 2, 2006
AJ Hawks User

Perfect!

I wrote a perl script to parse out the comic url and easter eggs, but I felt bad about not hitting his ads. This will make a fine replacement!

Incase anyone is interested, the script is at http://www.twisted-logic.net/cgi-bin/dinocomic....
(change count & comic to view more at once). It's good for getting up to speed if you're a new reader.

 
Feb 8, 2006
oliver dyas Script's author

i've found another script ( http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/559 ) which serves the same purpose as this one and also works for http://www.achewood.com/ and http://www.asofterworld.com/ , although it doesn't display qwantz's comments subject tooltip.

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