Monday, January 8, 2007
This was a result of a sudden bulb which glowed in my head today morning. The current for the bulb was provided here. =) (Sorry that was a really bad joke)
Smileys sure increase the viewer experience, but don't they increase the writer experience too?
How often have you complained about enclosing text inside <b> and </b>, if you had to highlight something in your comment?
Well! You don't have to do that any more.
This hack is just for you. YOU decide how you want the experience to be in another blog; not the owner of that blog. (I admit that sentence was too farfetched! You need some leniency from the owner also. What if he doesn't let you comment? :-/ :D )
FUNCTIONALITY
This Greasemonkey script will add a few buttons in every blogger comments page that you visit, thus helping you to italicize, make bold or even add smileys to your comments.
It works closely with Smileys hack, but will work without that hack also.
If the original blog (the one where you are commenting) has the Smileys hack, it will show the smileys as little images. Otherwise, they will remain as smiley text. No problems!
You need Firefox with Greasemonkey installed to use this.
For those who don't know much about Greasemonkey: Please be aware that this script *will not* change the look of your blog. It will do nothing to your blog. A person can see the buttons only if he/she has the user script installed in his/her browser. So you cannot provide this as a feel-good feature to your readers. (You can recommend this to them, though. ;) )
But on the other hand, you can use this as a feel-good feature for yourself, in all blogger blogs. (you heard it right! All!)
INSTALLATION
1. Install Greasemonkey Extension in your Firefox browser.
2. Click on this link to get your user script.
3. You will get a popup to install the user script, which looks like this:
4. Click Install.
USAGE
This will work similar to most text editors.
Select some text, click the button for Bold; the selected text will be enclosed in <b> tags. Similarly for italics and links.
If you click on the smiley buttons, the equivalent text will be inserted. If the owner of the blog has installed the smiley hack, then it will be shown as images in the item page.
Note1: The smiley images won't show up in the comment page, even if the smiley hack is installed. So don't come complaining that they don't work.
Note2: Thanks to Aditya for hosting the images. :)
Update: The smiley images will show up in the comment page now. I have made a mod of Aditya's hack into my userscript to show them. If you have already installed my script, just uninstall and reinstall it from the link above in INSTALLATION step #2
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