Comments on: XFN Anyone? http://blog.possumism.net/2007/04/05/xfn-anyone/ Why? Because possum.kicks-ass Fri, 18 May 2012 06:56:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Possum http://blog.possumism.net/2007/04/05/xfn-anyone/#comment-3077 Possum Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:36:44 +0000 http://blog.possumism.net/2007/04/05/xfn-anyone/#comment-3077 I've hacked up a poorly written <a href="http://possumism.net/xfn.cgi">proof of concept</a> in CGI/Perl (<a href="http://possumism.net/xfn.txt">source</a>). Now someone implement it in XUL :) I’ve hacked up a poorly written proof of concept in CGI/Perl (source). Now someone implement it in XUL :)

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]]> By: Possum http://blog.possumism.net/2007/04/05/xfn-anyone/#comment-3156 Possum Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:25:06 +0000 http://blog.possumism.net/2007/04/05/xfn-anyone/#comment-3156 Looks like the <a href="http://blog.codeeg.com/tails-firefox-extension-03/">Tails</a> extension does something <em>similar</em>, with microformats, and perhaps a "Tails script" can handle XFN. Not <em>exactly</em> what I had in mind, but it's on the right path :) Looks like the Tails extension does something similar, with microformats, and perhaps a “Tails script” can handle XFN.

Not exactly what I had in mind, but it’s on the right path :)

]]> By: Possum http://blog.possumism.net/2007/04/05/xfn-anyone/#comment-3244 Possum Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:33:19 +0000 http://blog.possumism.net/2007/04/05/xfn-anyone/#comment-3244 Hmm... I found something <em>really</em> close to what I was looking for. It's a <a href="http://google.com/search?q=greasemonkey">Greasemonkey</a> script called <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/880">XFN Viewer</a>. This implementation causes a CSS-styled <div> to appear at the bottom of the screen (without modification). Some caveats are that it doesn't detect 'rel="me"' (the XFN <em>identity</em> idea) and it doesn't detect reciprocal links. Also, it kinda breaks unless you edit the scripts. Here are some screenshots: <p align="center"> <a href="http://images.possumism.net/v/screenshots/possumkicks-ass-xfn-greasemonkey.png.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1"><img src="http://images.possumism.net/d/318-2/possumkicks-ass-xfn-greasemonkey.png" alt="possum.kicks-ass.org + XFN Viewer" /></a> <a href="http://images.possumism.net/v/screenshots/photojunkie-xfn-greasemonkey.png.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1"><img src="http://images.possumism.net/d/321-2/photojunkie-xfn-greasemonkey.png" alt="photojunkie.ca + XFN Viewer" /></a> </p> Since the javascript in the script simply writes an extra <div> into the page, complete with CSS styling, it's easy to add two lines to the script to prevent an issue like you see on <a href="http://photojunkie.ca">photojunkie </a>. The two lines you should add are: ' height: 15%;' + ' overflow: auto;' + Change the "15%" to whatever you think is reasonable. These lines should be added to the section "'#xfnviewer-div-0 {'+". With this fix, the result comes to something like this (notice the XFN div is now small, and scrollable): <p align='center'> <a href="http://images.possumism.net/v/screenshots/photojunkie-xfn-greasemonkey-fixed.png.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1"><img src="http://images.possumism.net/d/324-2/photojunkie-xfn-greasemonkey-fixed.png" alt="Photojunkie with fixes" /></a></p> Anyway, it's a nice script, and on the right track. But IMO, it would be nice to see something that uses XUL (to display in, i.e., a sidebar) and one that detects reciprocal links. By the way, if you use this script, and you want it to detect 'rel="me"' simply add "me" to the pipe-separated list named XFNRegex. Hmm… I found something really close to what I was looking for. It’s a Greasemonkey script called XFN Viewer. This implementation causes a CSS-styled <div> to appear at the bottom of the screen (without modification). Some caveats are that it doesn’t detect ‘rel=”me”‘ (the XFN identity idea) and it doesn’t detect reciprocal links. Also, it kinda breaks unless you edit the scripts. Here are some screenshots:

possum.kicks-ass.org + XFN Viewer photojunkie.ca + XFN Viewer

Since the javascript in the script simply writes an extra <div> into the page, complete with CSS styling, it’s easy to add two lines to the script to prevent an issue like you see on photojunkie . The two lines you should add are:

‘ height: 15%;’ +

‘ overflow: auto;’ +

Change the “15%” to whatever you think is reasonable. These lines should be added to the section “‘#xfnviewer-div-0 {’+”. With this fix, the result comes to something like this (notice the XFN div is now small, and scrollable):

Photojunkie with fixes

Anyway, it’s a nice script, and on the right track. But IMO, it would be nice to see something that uses XUL (to display in, i.e., a sidebar) and one that detects reciprocal links.

By the way, if you use this script, and you want it to detect ‘rel=”me”‘ simply add “me” to the pipe-separated list named XFNRegex.

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