Userscripts.org - Face icons, CSS tweaks

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Script Summary:
Some style tweaks for userscripts.org
Version: 1.5
Copyright: 2008 by Adam Katz
License: AGPL v3+
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Better face icons!!!1
wavatars2
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This script was initially a proposal for the drop-down menu you now see on the top navigation bar. It is now merely a collection of CSS tweaks to make the site a little more usable (in my opinion). If you want to see how the insertion worked, see the original version at http://userscripts.org/scripts/versions/35427

Currently, it does the following:

  • Show visited links
  • Show links in tables and headings (where it's white-on-black)
  • Improve wrapping for code presentation and wrapping bug for hidden comments
  • Add a down-arrow for the drop-down user menu
  • Remove underline of dashboard link when inside the menu (to emphasize the fact that that's a usable link, too)
  • Add borders for that menu, but only where it drops below the orange banner
  • (New!) More recognizable shape-face icons ("Wavatars") for default Gravatar icons instead of patterns (see Wavatar link or the screenshot below).
  • (New!) Added "Versions" tab, whole tabs are now links, better tab hovering.

This script is basically a demo, a candidate for inclusion on the site. Obviously, the HTML/CSS would be used on the site, not this JavaScript. (How, you ask? Use "View Generated Source" via the Web Developer add-on to Firefox).

I had to do a bit of forcing due to inheritance issues. That can be resolved by using a greater-than to limit that inheritance. (Generally, adding !important should not be needed within a site.) The other thing to note is that the "public profile" link goes to the wrong place because I had no way of scraping the user ID.

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Only one of the users above (Peter Bunyan) has a non-default icon.
Source page is http://userscripts.org/forums/2/topics/51

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