This is a really great tool.

One development I would fine useful would be to put a 'post to citeulike' link somewhere next to each of the different sources for the article, rather than just at the top to goto the one the title links to. This would mean that where there are multiple choices I could choose one that I prefer (say Ingenta or Pubmed) and which I know is likely to work properly with citeulike.

Oops, it seems to have interpretted my last comment too literally. what i had was (ignore the ^) "let x=orig_style <^a sty^le="x;">Linkified text</^a>"

Neil, is there no way for greasemonkey to "read" the style of the text before it linkfies it, and then set the style equal to that for that particular link? E.g., in pseudo-code: let x=orig_style;Linkified Text. This could then be modified by doing something like, maybe, style="x;color:red;" instead.

This is a really great idea. It works especially well on websites like BBC news, who are really poor at linking within their articles to external sources. One problem is that is seems to give the new link text a style based on the style of the anchor tag on the host website (e.g. blue text 10px). This doesn't look very good for words that appear in headings (e.g. look at some of the New Orleans stories on the BBC new site). Is there a way to make it keep the original text size and font, but maybe just change the color or add an onhover underline? I tried this but I'm afraid it was beyond my rather poor skills.

John,

You get the format sometime in the UK. For example, if you search for 'phone' and then click 'mobile and home phones' you get the URL http://phones.search.ebay.co.uk/phone_Mobile-Ho....

Your script has search*.ebay.*/* in it, but this doesn't pick it up, because there is no asterisk before 'search'.

A really useful script. It is also possible to edit it to point to other mapping sites like Multimap

I can't get this to work on non-US or non-dollar pages. Is there any chance of an update to fix this? Otherwise a great script.

John,

A great improvement - thank you! Two comments, both minor:

(1) you need to change one of the URLs that the script works with to from search*.ebay.*/* *search*.ebay.*/* (i.e. add an asterisk before search) so it works on all ebay pages. The user can do this themselves obviously...
(2) Is there a way to make the script set the height of ALL lines in the search to 80px BEFORE it tries to load each thumbnail. This would mean that the screen wouldn't keep jerking downwards if you scroll and then it begins loading thumbs and increasing the row height above you.

Sorry to be the pedant - this script deserves 6 out of 5 already.

All we need now is a script to sort the search results by the total price including postage costs... :)

This is a fantastic tool - many thanks for writing it.

One issue I did have was with images in the auction that are tall but narrow; the thumbnail is then also very tall. Is there a way to get it to have a maximum height similar to the normal ebay gallery pics?