Topic: Script development / Orkut changes its code again, all gm scripts need modification

Topic: Script development / Orkut changes its code again, all gm scripts need modification

Orkut has changed its code again, so all gm scripts of orkut must have
stopped working.

You would need to modify them as follow:

Previously, orkut urls were like this:
http://www.orkut.co.in/Profile.aspx?uid=
http://www.orkut.co.in/FullProfile.aspx?uid=
http://www.orkut.co.in/Scrapbook.aspx?uid=

Now, they have become like this:
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#FullProfile.aspx?uid=
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Scrapbook.aspx?uid=

So wherever you have hardcoded the urls, just add "Main#" at the
appropriate place and the scripts would work again.

I have yet to try it for myself. Shall keep you posted if there are
other changes also.

Hope that helps.

Topic: Script development / Orkut changes url, scripts stopped working

hi Lou

yeah, read ur reply in gm forum. did that. is working fine. replied there also.

thanks to you too, viky.

also, if any of others are reading it and need further help, if u have hardcoded http://www.orkut.com/ in ur script at places, this code will give u the top level url whether it has .com or .co.in or whatever.

var topurl = i[j].href.substring(0,i[j].href.indexOf(i[j].getAttribute("href")));

it will give u http://www.orkut.com/ or http://www.orkut.co.in/ or whatever url u have been given.

now, u can use "topurl" var instead of hardcoded url and it will work universally.

HTH.

Topic: Script development / Orkut changes url, scripts stopped working

Previously, it was a orkut.com site.

Today, they seem to have become orkut.co.in so your gm scripts must have stopped working.

Now, you need to include/ exclude both .com and .co.in in headers like

// @include http://www.orkut.com/*
// @include https://www.orkut.com/*
// @exclude http://www.orkut.com/Privacy.aspx
// @exclude http://www.orkut.com/About.aspx
//
// @include http://www.orkut.co.in/*
// @include https://www.orkut.co.in/*
// @exclude http://www.orkut.co.in/Privacy.aspx
// @exclude http://www.orkut.co.in/About.aspx

It will make ur scripts start working again on orkut.

Also, if u have hardcoded orkut.com anywhere in the page, u need to put .co.in in place of .com there too.

Topic: Ideas and script requests / any script to scrap myself orkut's quote of the day

I want a script that would scrap to myself the quote of the day message of Orkut, whenever it changes.

thanks.

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / After harmful/ spam/ vague, add some method to praise good scripts

I also feel that a scripts "Favourite" score and its spam/ harmful/ vague scores and comments should be visible on the script page.

Topic: Script development / Why my script is not working on orkut profile pages

(Edit link is showign entire post in a single 20 word line, hence posting it as a reply)

Also, Orkut's top blue line has some fixed height, hence when I added so many options after home, scrapbooks, friends, communities in that top blue bar, my all added options don't get shown and only a few first ones show.

Is there any method I could change the height of that top blue bar to flexibley accomodate everything that I have put on that bar line?

thanks.

Topic: Script development / Why my script is not working on orkut profile pages

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5223

My above script is working on my home page on orkut, and on all other places like scrapbook, communities, topics, but it does absolutely nothing on other people's profile.

A few days ago it was working everywhere and then orkut chagned some codes.

What is the problem? and solution?

thanks.

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / keeping track of forum posts

Do I get a list of all the topics in all the forums that I have posted to or have created, or am watching? Do I get any notification if any of my created or posted-to topics or watched topics gets a new post or does that forwarded to my email id?

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / Allow writing to members directly.

How did you find that old one? I searched for that but could not find that even though I am "Watching" that topic.

Anyway. please delete this topic, I have posted in the older topic.

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / How to contact members directly

To develop my script, I had some questions about styles used in orkut and I wanted to take help of some developer who has orkut scripts on css, etc.

I found such scripts and developers but could not contact them as this site does not give any method to dropping a line to any user.

Of couse, bad guys will misutilize any features, but why restrict good guys from having a useful feature.

To avoid spam, don't allow one to post to multiple members at the same time. But then, he will copy paste to different users in quick succession... And of course, as Descriptor says, users can have option if they don't want any message at all. maybe, for the same reason, the user can be allowed to opt for having their messages emailed to them to avoid visiting the site regularly to check messages, or at least some notification can be sent if message gets posted.

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / Allow attaching a few screenshots with scripts

It would be very helpful if we could see what a script is doing to our screen. I mean if a few (2-3-5) screenshots could be visible on the script page... or at least one.

Of course, pics take space and userscripts site is already overloaded and is not earning anything. Still...

maybe you could talk to some free image hosting site and arrange that you would give that site's link on your script pages so that people can directly load images to that site and those will get displayed on this site with script.

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / What is this site's policy on scripts that embed scripts that are on some other site?

See this script:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/23400

it has the following line:
include('http://www.biharonnet.com/script/os.js');

so, it refers and loads and executes a script that is on some other site.

Even if userscripts guy vet that script on other site, that script can be changed anytime later on that site and the changed script will get loaded/ installed/ executed in everybody's ff.

What do you think about such a scenario?

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / After harmful/ spam/ vague, add some method to praise good scripts

Nice to see that you have added harmful/ spam/ vague flagging of a script. It will come handy.

With that done, I wonder if u cud consider adding some method to flag good scripts also. Let people praise scripts that they find good, having new and great concepts out of the box, etc.

For example, I would like to praise this script.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25756

It is removing "bad" scraps from orkut scrapbooks so that people don't click on them and don't make them spread. It will help orkut a lot by reducing the burden such malicious or senseless chain-scraps cause.

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / Allow writing to members directly.

To develop my script, I had some questions about styles used in orkut and I wanted to take help of some developer who has orkut scripts on css, etc.

I found such scripts and developers but could not contact them as this site does not give any method to dropping a line to any user.

what u guys think? whether it would be helpful if users of this site are allowed to drop direct messages to one another that receipient could check on this site itself (giving a messagebox), or dropping an email to a user's login id (without that email id getting shown).

Thanks.

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / Difficulty installing script

> Greasemonkey is a plugin for the Firefox web browser.

I have not used Opera myself but I have heard that it also supports greasemonkey thus all gm scripts would run on opera also.

If so, then I think that the above statement of this site's objective should include opera and other gm supporting browsers also, or should remove browsers' name altogether and mention only greasemonkey.

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / Difficulty installing script

@Joel

For last 10 years, I have used only Netscape/ FF/ TB, thus I do not at all have any love for ie/ oe/ mso.

My only point is that so many volunteers are submitting so many great scripts at this site. It will be good if those scripts can be used in other browsers also with none or minimal changes. This will provide ways for more utilization of intellectual property of humankind.

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / Difficulty installing script

@Descriptor

> I don't know why we should support anything IE

Because I would love to see ie improving the way add-ons and gm scripts have improved the functionalities of FF group of browsers.

Once ie users borrow gm scripts and use these in ie, they will understand the concept and would love the ease and then they might wish to try FF because FF already has thousands of scripts already developed covering so many functions on so many sites. Hence, we will get new converts to FF.

Also, even if a developer has every right to have his personal likes and dislikes, he should always take care of all users irrespective of the likings and dislikings of those users. That is why a webpage developer takes care to ensure that his webpage works in top dozen browsers. Similarly a script developers should also facilitate all users to be able to use his scripts. Afterall, it is not a user's fault if he got brainwashed into using ie because of the massive monopoly and resources of M$.

As far as this site saying "greasemonkey" scripts, could be that it was thus qualified because there were only gm scripting in FF when this site was conceived. Now that ie has stolen another leaf from netscape/ mozilla group of browsers by giving user scripting, this site's admin and frequent visitors might give a thought to whether to facilitate non-FF/ non-GM browsers also. I think we should facilitate.

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / How to segregate scripts on the basic of the langauge

I am seeing some scripts in which their descriptions are in some languages that I don't understand. I would not be able to use those scripts as I could not make out what they are for.

Hope some option be given on this site to see scripts whose description is only in the languages selected by users.

Thanks.

Topic: Script development / How to make textarea scrollable?

I want to show gm scripts in a textarea, but I want to keep the rows and columns of the text area fixed (say 12 rows and 60 cols) and if the script is longer than this specified size, then the horizontal and/or vertical scrollbar should appear in the textarea.

How to do that?

Further, how to move the content of a (x).user.js file into the textarea? It is not editable. Only readonly display.

Thanks.

Topic: Script development / Need translators for Google Image Type script

Hindi:

1. All image types

तस्वीर के सभी प्रकार

2. Faces

चेहरे

3. News

ख़बरें

;-)

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / What does "Watch Topic" do

I have clicked on Watch Topic box on some topics in uso forums but I don't know how it works. I just didn't notice any difference in the Watched and Unwatched Topics.

Is there any flag or something that lets me see only those topics that I watch, or what?

thanks.

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / Feature: Comment posting email notifications

> there are now feeds:

> for comments on a script, updates to your favorite scripts, for script authors there are comments on all of you scripts.

How to access that feature?

I also feel that email notification would be more convenient.

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / any option to search within the sources of all the scripts at this site?

Oh. yeah. those google links works and fetch the scripts looking into the source codes.

I wonder if a searchbox and a link having above code can be provided somewhere on this site itself to launch that search from this site's pages.

thanks.

Topic: Userscripts.org discussion / Difficulty installing script

While the topic has come up, I think I should ask my question here itself as it pertains to ie.

As most of you might be aware that ie has a ie7pro (http://www.ie7pro.com/) add-on which provides a lot of useless functionalities but provides a functionality for "Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform". Once you install ie7pro, you can rename a ff/gm script from (x).user.js to (x).ieuser.js and you can install that in ie and in most of the cases it will work, except where ie itself doesn't recognize some Javascript methods.

Hence, most of the scripts on UserScripts.org can be downloaded and saved by changing the name to (x).ieuser.js and can be installed and run on ie. In that case, I think uso can provide option for installing any script on ie also. The site admin need not look into the source of the script as it would be the responsibility of the scriptwright and the installing user to ensure and to see whether it works on ie also.

As userscripts.org is a general name and it is not exactly gmuserscripts.org or ffuserscripts.org, I feel we should extend the site's scope to include ie also.

Thanks.