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I’m Michael Devore. I fix scripts.

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13 Responses to About

  1. Drew Tucker says:

    Hello,

    I help moderate a forum, and some of us use GM scripts. Someone left and I basically inherited his script, and have been updating it for over a year.

    The problem is, it’s really hard to add new content. The script has multiple spaces within it, and deleting them causes the script to not work.

    I was wondering if you could fix this, and how much it would cost me.

    Thank you,
    -Drew Tucker

    http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/52501

    • ifixscripts says:

      Tell me some details on what you want and if it’s no big deal, I’ll just add it when I have time later this week (probably). Kind of a weird-looking script, don’t really understand what it does from a quick look at the source. Huge amounts of embedded whitespace, might be better for the script to handle things a different way.

  2. Drew Tucker says:

    I’d like it rewritten so there isn’t whitespace to be honest. It’s rather annoying when trying to add something new but having to copy the required whitespace as well.

    Imagine a text box, with this below it: http://s3.amazonaws.com/uso_ss/1721/large.png?1249715488

    It basically inserts those items, instead of having to type them out.

    I tried manually deleting the whitespace, but the script stopped working.

    Thank you for your time, and sorry if this is in the wrong location.

    • ifixscripts says:

      OK, do I need to create a sign-on to test a revised, or do you have a test or preferred sign-on you want to email me the details to test a script? I assume I’ll have to post messages to test the script’s operation if I get it working. Is there a place to do that on the forum, since your users probably don’t want to see test posts (assuming I get that far with it).

  3. Drew Tucker says:

    I can make you an account really quick. I’ll then send you a private message, and you can test from that area. Do you just want me to post the information on here, or email it to you? It will be a WLID and a password basically.

  4. Drew Tucker says:

    Just wanted to follow up and give my thanks for reformatting the script. You removed 100kb of space!

    You’ll be giving a special credit for all of your hard work :)

    http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/52501 Here’s the script after your reformatting.

    Thank you once again.

  5. Maciek says:

    Hi Michael!

    there is a useful script for Google Reader. It adds shortcut mark as read and jump to next item. Sadly it doesn’t work in Chrome. Perhaps you could take a look at that one.
    http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/25522

    best reagards,
    Maciek

    • ifixscripts says:

      Sorry I didn’t follow up, the past couples of weeks have been pretty crazy busy.

      I did look over the code and can see where and why it is breaking. There is an unsupported function call specific to Mozilla, although there is a similar function which is for Chrome. However, when I attempted to correct with working code, for some reason Chrome still doesn’t like use of the function in my tests. Perhaps it works as native extension instead of a script, but I ran out of time to test that. If I can get back to it before the end of the month, I’ll try again, and check as a native extension. Sorry about the delay.

  6. ifixscripts says:

    Hmm, I don’t see anything obvious in the source which would break Chrome. I’ll try to look at it in more detail early next week.

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