Summary
Since HowlsOfOutrage’s release, three MetaFilter users have asked about an update to the script to support the MetaFilter plain theme which uses a white background. Because the original script did not explicitly set text color, the resulting text was hard to read for the optional color theme. This problem has been resolved with two other enhancements and is available on the home and userscripts site.
Detail
Version 2 of HowlsOfOutrage added text color of white to the script so that it was left as a default color, which did not work well with the plain theme. If you would like a different text color, for example black, you would change the line:
aNode.style.color = “white”;
to
aNode.style.color = “black”;
Two other changes were made. The popup box now sizes to the text inside it, i.e. the list of users favoriting a post. Just seems a bit more neat to me than the original quick hack, since I was in there messing around with the code anyway. If you really liked the original box, you can uncomment the line:
// favPopUp.style.height = “192″;
by removing the leading “//” and things should work as they did before.
Also, if you hover over a post, you will see the list of favorites from users, instead of it working for just the comments. Once again, cleaning things up a bit.
If you have questions or comments, please post them here. I don’t always monitor the userscripts site, plus it can have stability problems.
Download links: home site or userscripts site.
