OcUK FireFox extension

Deathwish · 3 Dec 2005 at 17:07

Alright, I was bored today and decided to make an OcUK firefox extension.

It goes in the same vein as the SA forums one, code came from over the internet so im not taking full credit for this.

Click on the link, download it off my website or install it direct!

Edit: Just updated it to 1.3.0.
Changed: The Console forum name and some other small changes.

Click for the OcUK FireFox Extension

Deathwish · 3 Dec 2005 at 21:24

Ooh, sorry about forgetting a screenshot, thanks guys for posting some.

Glad it can be of some use, I find it handy

Otacon said:
Does that dynamically generate the forum lists, or are they static? Obviously there are some forums not on that list which I would need to access

Nah mate, its static but im sure I could make a Don/Underboss version if there is a need, all I would need is a forum link/name. Email me if you want and we can sort something out.

Deathwish · 3 Dec 2005 at 21:37

Er, it is? "View New Posts"

Or am I mistaken?

Deathwish · 3 Dec 2005 at 21:53

Hehe, no problem! Happens to me as well, can't see for looking

Deathwish · 4 Dec 2005 at 01:12

SpankLikeThis said:
Thats brill , now i can use the forum with more ease

Just helping the addiction along a little bit more

Deathwish · 4 Dec 2005 at 02:36

sfx said:
No way it could be dynamic without querying the database.

sfx

Or a hella lot of RegExp, which aint happening

Deathwish · 4 Dec 2005 at 12:42

Immulsifier said:
How did you create this? Would be useful for a few sites I run.

There's a few nice tutorials here: http://roachfiend.com/archives/category/tutorials/

Deathwish · 4 Dec 2005 at 16:32

Just uploaded a new version, now with added Trust and Log Out (why would you want to do that!?)

Not sure how it reacts if the user has no Trust as I can't test that, any problems let me know.

Cheers.
Dave

Deathwish · 6 Dec 2005 at 15:09

No idea where I would start with Opera, so i'll leave that to someone else

Deathwish · 8 Dec 2005 at 00:59

Cheers guys, never thought it would be this popular

Deathwish · 9 Dec 2005 at 19:58

SpankLikeThis said:
Why? You just made everyones life easier

I thought I was just messing around

Made a few more (pointless) extensions, learning something new

Deathwish · 9 Dec 2005 at 20:09

the_brainaic said:
When I use the 'View New Posts' button, it always comes up with the 'You have to wait 10 seconds between searching', even if I haven't used the computer for hours! Any possible reason?

No idea there mate, all clicking that button does it redirect to the forums search link, nothing fancy.

I know that you can only do 1 search per 10 seconds on these board.

Deathwish · 12 Dec 2005 at 13:17

bledd. said:
can you give me the source code for the ocuk one mate?

wanna make one for msfn

Whats your email address comrade?

Deathwish · 20 Dec 2005 at 13:28

Wheee, my website has never seen so many hits

Deathwish · 23 Dec 2005 at 19:12

LewisStuart said:
I Like this extension a lot, Especially for the MM

Nice one Deathwish

Yeah, thats a bit cheeky that part really

Deathwish · 24 Dec 2005 at 16:46

From my limited knowledge of XPath, does that not require an XML output?

Deathwish · 1 Jan 2006 at 16:27

robmiller said:
No, it requires XML input. Since OcUK is relatively well-formed XHTML, you should be able to use XPath to extract forum date without any headaches at all.

Even if it did have something to do with XML output, that would be okay - since the menu is just XUL, which is XML based.

I might have a look into that, cheers

Deathwish · 14 Jan 2006 at 22:09

Sure no problem! Feel free to distribute it to the rest of the Dons

Deathwish · 16 Jan 2006 at 18:41

The website should be fine? Just checked and all looks well.

I'll have a look into the FF1.5 and Compact Menu issues...well...once i've got rid of this damn cold ;(

Deathwish · 24 Jan 2006 at 16:50

Put out a small update today to reflect the change in name of the Console forum.

Also added small menu for the shop and did some tidying up etc.
FireFox auto-update should find it, if not there's a link on my website:
http://www.fwibble.org/projects.html