I ran into a fun little situation today when I started converting my TinyMCE wysiwyg fields over to OpenWYSIWYG.  In one of my projects, I use a lot of ajax that can load wysiwyg fields.  I can't really explain in too much detail how my structure works, but if you've used ajax and wysiwyg before, you've no doubt come across the annoying overlap bug.  I've tried everything... using z-index to push the editors above everything else, pushing everything else way below, etc., but none ... (more)

There are a lot of photo carousel types of scripts out there, but none of them fit with what I was trying to do in one of my other projects, so I wrote this one from scratch. It uses mootools and slimbox in this example, however, I moved it directly into a project using lightbox and it worked without any modifications there as well. If you use this, you'll likely need to adjust the path of the "on" and "off" indicator graphics, but you shouldn't have to do much else. I tes... (more)

In my quest to make facebook even halfway usable again, I wrote the de-crapifier, which uses a javascript to find and hide all application boxes from your friends' profiles. This is a second script, which will remove application boxes from your home news feed. So if your dumb friend fights a pirate, you don't have to hear about it, and when somerandomgirl adds fifty-thousand Valentine's Day apps, it doesn't pollute your news feed.Update (additional features):script now hides advertisements fro... (more)

My last post started my quest to find something that would allow me to use javascript or any other language to modify a website before it got to my screen. I've had it rolling around in my head for awhile and stumbled across the exact thing I needed yesterday. This article came through my RSS reader, so I dug in to see how it drains href links from websites. It is actually pretty simple. You install the Greasemonkey firefox plugin, then install simple javascripts. Using some regular express... (more)

I don't know about you, but I want a whole lot more control over the sites I visit than I currently have. My facebook de-crap-ifier is the first step, but I want more. I want to be able to write plugins for specific sites that will be able to either hide or move content depending on what I care about. The primary example of this is the facebook news feed. I don't want to see sponsored crap, invites, notices about stupid shit, etc. If I could write a script that would be able to look at the ... (more)

Facebook sucked less when it was just college kids and when applications didn't exist. Through some CSS trickery and a set of scripts that download the entire list of applications, I'm able to hide every one of the 14,000 applications from my friends' walls. Something goofy about the way facebook indexes their applications sometimes lets a few slip through the cracks, so you may find one or two that still show up. Send me a quick email with a link to any application pages that show up still an... (more)