Script Summary: cleans up the new bbc layout and includes a robust left-hand menu
30 July (2): v1.85 fixes problems with moving Related links and video/audio, and version-handling
30 July: Version 1.8 deals with other black regional news boxes (eg Scotland/Wales) by putting the content into the sidebar.
29 July: A new version which tones down the regional news box on the England page.
28 July: A new version which moves the Related Links into the sidebar to help with navigation and page length. Ironically that's where they used to be.
27 July: A new version which copes better with UK personalisation settings.
If you have problems with an update get a stable version at http://userscripts.org/scripts/version/82319/23...
This is a version of Tom Veil's script which provides a more robust left-hand sidebar menu. The menu is constructed from the strip menus presented in the site, rather than a fixed table, so its content varies according to what is served. The main content is in a fixed position, which means that on screens narrower than 1280px the right-hand sidebar is off the edge. However the left-hand menu doesn't disappear. I judged that the right-hand sidebar was less important. On a 1280px screen everything fits.
The content of the big blue-black box on the home page is moved into the right-hand sidebar (not in the blue box! It's softened). UK regions does the same, except for England, where it's too big. England is toned down in-situ.
There are a few other tweaks included, such as removing "LIVE" overlays which are intended to overlay an image -- images are removed anyway, so the "LIVE" badge overlaid text; and removing the large UK maps from the UK news digest block.
I've also fixed the Helvetica Neue issue by including a font-family line right at the top of the script. Change this to what you want: I rather like Candara, so that's listed first. If you have Windows and Helvetica Neue installed, this is how to get the site to use something else without having to uninstall the font.
Kudos to Tom. A lot of the script is his, and I wouldn't have started without that.
