# I made a SDMB-improving Greasemonkey script. Looking for feedback/beta testers **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 14, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973 "2009-09-14T00:11:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/141 "2009-09-20T14:37:45Z")
That looks like the law to me. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/142 "2009-09-20T15:08:09Z")
Yeah, that’s meant to represent the Police. The guy in the suit is meant to be a lawyer, though now that I think on it, I suppose the car could represent both. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/143 "2009-09-20T16:01:06Z")
I think a number of folks would like to have [this one](http://www.wright-counseling.com/Images/pinktriangle.gif) as well. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/144 "2009-09-20T16:19:18Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > I’ve got a cold or an infection or piggie flu or sars or smallpox or cancer or something, so progress has been slow today (mostly relegated to bed, Scribblenauts, and horrendus Dan Brown prose on my kindle), but here’s a preview of the PDF stuff. > > Links to PDF files are adorned with an icon (feel free to contribute something better; I’d like to stay away from adobe trademarked symbols as their ham-fisted mishandling of one of the most potentially notable file formats in modern computing makes my insides cry) [like so](http://www.aarondunlap.com/forumstuff/sdmb/screenshots/Screenshot%202009-09-20%2000h%2002m%2008s.png). > > When you hover over that icon, [you get a hover-preview thing of that PDF’s first page](http://www.aarondunlap.com/forumstuff/sdmb/screenshots/Screenshot%202009-09-20%2000h%2002m%2027s.png). This functionality is provided by Google via an undocumented hack (of sorts) that I totally just stumbled upon while I was working on the next thing: > > When you click the icon, [it launches a modal window (just like with YouTube videos) with the linked PDF embedded inside](http://www.aarondunlap.com/forumstuff/sdmb/screenshots/Screenshot%202009-09-20%2000h%2002m%2046s.png). It’s using a Google embedded PDF viewer (part of Google Docs, actually) and does not require having adobe reader, its stupid browser plugin, or any type PDF software on your computer. Google is just so.. I want to make babies with them. > > The embedded viewer is very light, not requiring much load time. It has a link to launch a full-page viewer in a new window with more advanced features. > > I’ll probably get this update online tomorrow morning. This update just went online. Beta testers, check your update windows. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/145 "2009-09-20T19:48:28Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > This update just went online. Beta testers, check your update windows. Thanks, **aaron**. It would be nice, by the way, if those update windows had dates on the notes. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/146 "2009-09-20T22:01:33Z")
Is the pink triangle considered acceptable now? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/147 "2009-09-20T23:29:49Z")
I’ve never known a point in time (in the recent 20 years) when it was unacceptable. I think people may be inverting it now. I see it all the time as a bumper sticker. It’s sold in gay bookstores. A rainbow flag is also acceptable but the pink triangle can be de-bigulated and still be recognizable, where as the colors might all wash together on a rainbow flag. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/148 "2009-09-20T23:42:12Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > Thanks, **aaron**. It would be nice, by the way, if those update windows had dates on the notes. Can do, but they’re based on your version. You only see “new update available” notices if you aren’t using the newest version, and you only see “this version has…” notices when you’re using that version. So anything you see applies exactly to you, so it’s all somehow relevant. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/149 "2009-09-21T04:06:16Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Yeah, that’s meant to represent the Police. The guy in the suit is meant to be a lawyer, though now that I think on it, I suppose the car could represent both. a) if a guy in a suit is a lawyer, what will you use for other professions that normally wear suits, such as accountants, bankers, etc? b) I know many defence lawyers who would not be happy at being told that a police car represents the legal profession. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/150 "2009-09-21T04:43:04Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > a) if a guy in a suit is a lawyer, what will you use for other professions that normally wear suits, such as accountants, bankers, etc? There wouldn’t be much call to represent them here. I’d guess the most frequently requested professions to receive answers from would be something like Lawyer, Doctor (including Psychology), Entomologist, Ornithologist, other Scientists (Astronomer, Physicist), an Emergency Service like Fireman or Police, and then after that it peters out to an amorphous “everything else”. If you can think of any others that might need to have icons, feel free to list them. Though, having said that, I haven’t heard from **weirdaaron** that he wants to use my graphics, yet. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/151 "2009-09-21T06:39:31Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > There wouldn’t be much call to represent them here. I’d guess the most frequently requested professions to receive answers from would be something like Lawyer, Doctor (including Psychology), Entomologist, Ornithologist, other Scientists (Astronomer, Physicist), an Emergency Service like Fireman or Police, and then after that it peters out to an amorphous “everything else”. > > If you can think of any others that might need to have icons, feel free to list them. > > Though, having said that, I haven’t heard from **weirdaaron** that he wants to use my graphics, yet. Not to mention that accountants and bankers would be better represented by a calculator… ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/152 "2009-09-21T06:44:08Z")
Quite. Or dollar signs. I suppose computer guru would be somewhere at the top of my list too. In fact, I’ll make an icon for that now. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/153 "2009-09-21T16:05:40Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Though, having said that, I haven’t heard from **weirdaaron** that he wants to use my graphics, yet. I’m a sucker for suspense. I’m not working on the badge thing right now, so I’m trying to keep it out of my head. I like your icons, though I can’t figure out what the kiwi bird is for. People who can’t fly? And having an icon for every religion (cross, crescent and star) could get major complicated. There’s no jewish one, or hindu, or buddhist, or taoist, or egyptian sun-worship, etc. That’s why I just have a “religious” badge now, with praying hands, that could represent basically any religion wherein people still have hands. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/154 "2009-09-21T18:12:11Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > That’s why I just have a “religious” badge now, with praying hands, that could represent basically any religion wherein people still have hands. Hand-ist. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/155 "2009-09-21T23:39:59Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > I’m not working on the badge thing right now, so I’m trying to keep it out of my head. Fair enough. I can be patient, also. > [@wierdaaron](#): > > I like your icons, though I can’t figure out what the kiwi bird is for. People who can’t fly? It’s actually a wren, I think, and it’s for people like **Colibri** , who is a very popular and valuable poster in GQ. > [@wierdaaron](#): > > And having an icon for every religion (cross, crescent and star) could get major complicated. Not that complicated, I don’t think. As long as people don’t start demanding flags to represent their country of origin. Then we’d be getting messy. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/156 "2009-09-22T02:06:40Z")
What about icons for our hobbies? Like gardening or knitting. And icons for our fashion preferences? Alexander Julian or Armani. And what about icons for Mensa and TOPS? Oh! Oh! And icons for tits man or ass man? (And whatever ladies like — pecs and abs, I suppose.) And books we’ve read? Cities we live in or near? Numbers of children and grandchildren? Marriage status? Pro Life or Pro Choice? Coke or Pepsi? Ginger or Mary Ann? Emotional state? FICO scores? Football teams? Wine snobs? Elton John? Beef jerky? I’m not sure we’ve put enough thought into these. ETA: And of course, Classic Vinyl or noise. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/157 "2009-09-22T09:52:53Z")
Did you know that broken links still pull up the preview? That’s awesome! You can even right click and copy the URL without highlighting. Pretty nifty! Wish there was a way to follow the link, or at least leave out the spaces when copying the URL… Oh and a cosmetic suggestion: the update box needs a color coordinated scrollbar. I sincerely hope I’m not overstaying my welcome with all of these feature ideas… ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/158 "2009-09-23T00:26:21Z")
I love the awesome-ized links and never, ever want to go back to browsing the SDMB without them. It would be cool if there were some indicator for posts that quote one of your own prior posts in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/159 "2009-10-02T00:32:21Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I love the awesome-ized links and never, ever want to go back to browsing the SDMB without them. > > It would be cool if there were some indicator for posts that quote one of your own prior posts in the thread. The little blue box around the actual quote isn’t enough? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973/160 "2009-10-03T18:39:34Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > The little blue box around the actual quote isn’t enough? I just now for the very first time saw the little blue box around the quote. I also just upgraded Firefox to v3.5, so maybe that has something to do with it? Anyway, yeah, that is pretty much what I was asking for! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-sdmb-improving-greasemonkey-script-looking-for-feedback-beta-testers/509973.md?page=9)