Dinosaur Comics' Easter Eggs

By oliver dyas Last update Feb 4, 2006 — Installed 2,962 times.

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The following is an archive of comments made before threaded discussions was implemented (November 16th, 2008)

 
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.

 
DerGuteMoritz User

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

 
Hosferatu User

That fix still doesn't work for me.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
DerGuteMoritz User

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

 
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.

 
oliver dyas Script's Author

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

 
DerGuteMoritz User

Oh no, is it broken?

 
mario User

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

 
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.

 
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?

 
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.

 
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.

 
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?

 
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.

 
oliver dyas Script's Author

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

 
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?

 
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.

 
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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