Dynamic and persistant DW reading/network page expand/collapse/hide

[foxfirefey]

I come bearing gifts for your kind alpha testing, dw_nifty! This Greasemonkey (a Firefox extension) was made at niqaeli's request. It's for dynamically collapsing and expanding entries on your reading and network pages (and other journals, too). What's more, the script will remember your options between page loads.

You can install the script here: DW Post Expand/Collapse/Hide. Please test it for me!

The controls are added to the end of each entry's title, and by default are (+) for expand, (-) for collapse, and (x) for hide.

It only works with core2 styles--that is, if you've imported a style from LJ, it won't work on that. But it should work for all Dreamwidth styles that aren't Zesty White. Fortunately, more and more core2 styles are getting added to Dreamwidth every code push.

Additionally, on occasion every few weeks or months or so, you probably want to empty out all the saved values so you don't clog your browser up with them. The commands for doing that are in Tools -> Greasemonkey -> User Script Commands.

If you're adventurous, there are some options at the beginning of the script designed to be edited for different effects and behavior including:

* Which classes in the entry get hidden when it is collapsed.
* Whether entries are collapsed or expanded by default.
* The text of the collapse/expand and hide action links, and their bracketing.

Future planned features include:

* Add flagging posts for later attention
* Add autocollapse (or autoexpand) for listed journals
* Add autocollapse for Twitter posts

Comments

[afuna]

\o/!!

[lap_otter]

* Add autocollapse for Twitter posts
THANK GOD.

[foxfirefey]

Question: could you link me to a Twitter post that shows up on your reading list, as a sample for me to work with?

[medrin]

I love the idea of this script, but I don't think it's working properly for me.

When I click on the(-) the entry disappears, but it does not reappear by clicking (+). It disappears completely by clicking (x), but I can't get it anything to come back with any of the user script commands.

(Sitting on Windows XP, transmogrified site scheme, I have a few other scripts installed... haven't tried without them yet)

[foxfirefey]

Alrighty, questions:

* What version of FF and Greasemonkey do you have? It might be a problem with that, because I'm testing it on your reading page and not having those problems.
* Do things come back after user script commands when you refresh? (Although that is a good idea, resetting entry states after one of those commands!)

Thanks for helping me test!

[shiny_crystal]

Wow, this is seriously awesome, and so far it's working fine :) Thanks for sharing!

[cereta]

OMG, yay! I was just wishing for this!

[siliconshaman]

Nice, works fine on my system. [FF3 under Ubuntu 9.04]

[brownbetty]

Works for me! Coolio.

[isis]

The mouseover text for expand/collapse are reversed! I get "expand" over the - and then when I click it and it collapses, I get "collapse" over the +

How do you unhide?

[foxfirefey]

Oh dear--you are right! A new version of the script is up that fixes that.

I'm still figuring out a better way to unhide, but currently there are two options:

* You can use the "Clear hidden entry values" command in Tools -> Greasemonkey -> User Script Commands to wipe out all hidden toggles
* You can put "about:config" in the location bar, filter for "greasemonkey.scriptvals.dw", find the user/post value that's set to 2 that you want to hide, and delete it.

[aedifica]

When I saw this post I thought it was about expanding cut tags for reading on the main reading page, which would also be cool... but when I realized what it actually was, my reaction was "OMG I want this for the tor.com feed!" (The tor.com feed has articles I want, so I keep it subscribed, but it also has the full text of a whole lot of articles I *don't* care about and they take up way too much space on my reading page. I'll have to unsubscribe it on LJ and subscribe it on DW just so I can use this.) So yay and thanks!

[foxfirefey]

Glad to be of help!

[artisan447]

Thanks! I'm not getting any mouse-over text for any of the expand/collapse/hide icons. Are you expecting that? (using FF 3.5.2 on Vista).

[foxfirefey]

Huh, I'm not! I gave the links "title" attributes, which should show up as mouse over text as far as I know! (Although as you can see earlier, I got that backwards.) When did you install it? Maybe you installed it before I put that in?

for mobile devices

[babysprite]

* Whether entries are collapsed or expanded by default.

That will be fabulous for mobile devices where screen space is at a minimum.

Mentioning this, I'm going to poke around DW to see if anyone's working on a mobile DW API or interface. If not, I just might open up a terminal window and crank up my favorite Unix text editor to work up one, myself. Be warned, though. I'm a TTY junkie and everything would be Zen simple and spartan.

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[owl]

Awesome! Now I want it for LJ too :D

[foxfirefey]

I think the script could be modified for LJ, but it would have to be customized for each individual style.

[ninetydegrees]

I hadn't realized how truly brilliant this was until I noticed entries I had collapsed stayed collapsed no matter where I was viewing them.

*worships*

[foxfirefey]

Er, are you talking about on entry pages? It should work on network and reading pages...I kind of, er, "fixed" it from occurring on entry pages, but if you like that, I could rejigger the script and make it into an options!

[ratcreature]

It doesn't work for me. I installed the Greasemonkey script and I have a core2 theme (Modish), but there are no controls visible.

[foxfirefey]

What version of FF and GM are you running? I've gone to you page and they are working for me, so I suspect it might be something having to do with that. Also, if you go to Tools->Error Console, do you get logged errors from Greasemonkey when loading your reading page?

[solaciolum]

Oh, wow, this is awesome- I just installed the script, and it's working perfectly. Thank you!

[foxfirefey]

Glad it works for you!

[highlander_ii]

I has a query - can this be easily adapted to function with LJ and/or IJ? If it's easy - shiny awesome, if it's not so easy, forget I asked? XD

Btw - this is one of the most awesome GM scripts since the LJ cut expander! *g*

[foxfirefey]

It can't be easily adapted to work with all styles, but maybe some of them? It depends. This particular script depends on certain CSS elements present in all S2 core2 styles, which LJ doesn't have. It might work on well-classed and divved LJ styles, though it would have to be edited for each one. That reminds me, though, I should make a DW cut expander.

[paian]

I've been using this script since you first posted it, and at this point I have no idea how I ever lived without it. Thank you so much!!

[arduinna]

I've been using this script for a few months now, and I knew I loved it but didn't realize just how much until I started working on a new computer and it wasn't there. I actually went "ack!" and raced to install it. <3 Thank you so much!

[aedifica]

I have an odd request: when you have time, would you be willing to edit this post so it includes the word "Firefox" somewhere in it? I keep telling people about the add-on, and then they want to try it, and then I try to search the community for this post but I'm usually using "Firefox" as a search term and so it doesn't turn up. (If I were sure it was just me, I'd just deal with it, but I bet I'm not the only person who tries to use that as a search term for this.)

P.S. Thanks again for making this add-on!

[foxfirefey]

Oh, does that help?

[kudilu]

I just installed this, and it seems to work fine for me so far.
I notice that it says there are options to decide some things. does this include being able to keep the post's user icon up on the collapsed post? if so, can you tell me how to do that? it's about the only issue i have - i want to see the user icon, because it's mostly how i identify accounts.

[foxfirefey]

Manage scripts, edit this one, and take "userpic", out of:

var collapseables = new Array("entry-content", "metadata", "userpic", "entry-management-links");

Then save.

sad

[throttlee]

only works for firefox right? I have chrome, it did no effect here

[alexseanchai]

I turned on the new comment page beta and now the script runs on entry pages instead of just read and network pages which means any DW tab left from before last browser restart has the entry collapsed and DO NOT WANT.

[highlander_ii]

Here is the mirror link for the script if the other one isn't working: http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/57024.html

[niqaeli]

Bless you, I just came here to comment with this for the next time I have to install it and find you've helpfully beat me to it! And lest that mirror site go down, actually, here's the direct link to foxfirefey's remotely hosted copy of the script.

[highlander_ii]

Fey - is this supposed to work when one has sticky posts on their DW page? B/c in my case (and this may be why I went back to DOOO posts), w/ sticky posts, the expand/collapse disappears.

[montuos]

Is it just me, or did the script break for anyone else after the Greasemonkey update a couple-three days ago? *cries*