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| | | Author: | melbourne_josh  | | Posted: | Feb 11, 2011 05:52 | | Subject: | SUGGEST: Fix it yourself | | Viewed: | 227 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| I suggest that where possible members be proactive and repair any problems they
find with this website themselves, using Greasemonkey. Greasemonkey is a Mozilla
Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes
to HTML web page content - details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey
Most Greasemonkey scripts can also be used within the Chrome browser. I'm
believe there is some kind of IE support.
The upside of fixing the problem yourselves is that we're not reliant on Admin
finding the time and the inclination to fix something you find annoying. It
also gives Admin a clear understanding of a suggestion - he can see it working
for himself, look at the number of people using the script and judge if that
seems to be a good idea. There's also a remote chance that the JavaScript client-side
implementation will inform any server-side re-implementation.
If Admin wants to encourage/facilitate this kind of activity, more extensive
use of the HTML id tag and/or unique HTML name tags would be helpful.
Standards:
I suggest that once an improvement has been posted in the Suggestions topic,
a reply be posted to the suggestion - but with the topic changed to Related Software
to make finding these posts easy. That reply should link to the script and give
any necessary instructions for use.
The Greasemonkey script should be posted to UserScripts.org, and tagged with
"bricklink" and "lego". The script should use the same @namespace ("bricklink")
and @icon (located at http://www.sculpturesupplies.com.au/GMBL.png) as other
bricklink scripts, making it obvious in the Tools | Add-ons dialog which scripts
are for Bricklink. The script should be named GMBL_whatever.user.js (Greasemonkey
Bricklink, or gimble) so that in a large directory all scripts are grouped together.
Scripts should be added as a link to "Inventory Software" http://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
pending a more appropriate grouping.
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| | | | | Author: | therobo | | Posted: | Feb 11, 2011 15:10 | | Subject: | Re: SUGGEST: Fix it yourself | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, melbourne_josh writes:
| | I suggest that where possible members be proactive and repair any problems they
find with this website themselves,...[snip]
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Hi,
what actual problems do you refer to?
Are there any known problems?
| | The upside of fixing the problem yourselves is that we're not reliant on Admin
finding the time and the inclination to fix something you find annoying.
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For example?
Ronald
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| | | | | | | Author: | melbourne_josh | | Posted: | Feb 11, 2011 15:46 | | Subject: | Re: SUGGEST: Fix it yourself | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, melbourne_josh writes:
| | The upside of fixing the problem yourselves is that we're not reliant on Admin
finding the time and the inclination to fix something you find annoying.
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For example?
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http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=514781
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| | | | | Author: | ElLutzo | | Posted: | Feb 11, 2011 15:34 | | Subject: | Re: SUGGEST: Fix it yourself | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Despite from being unable to use this on Safari, I doubt much problems exist
which can be solved this way.
Most open issues/problems are more complex and involve the database.
Most pages in the end are asp scripts which run on the server and only
produce HTML output. I think it is not possible to alter these scripts this way.
They are stored and executed on the server, and have been executed once
you see the page.
Only possible use might be create differently layouted pages maybe for better
printability or display as there is no more data available than the asp query
delivered.
In the end I also might be suspicious against everone changing the way BL works.
Could cause more problems or even misuse in the end than there is now.
Lutz
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