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It's time for Mono Barbelith

 
 
Happy Dave
12:09 / 22.05.07
Hello Folks,

After playing around with the code for Lifehacker's 'Darken' greasemonkey Script, I've come up with 'Lighten'. When I say 'come up with', what I mean is I've swapped the colour values, so now you can use my version to make Barbelith all white and inconspicious, if, say, you're browsing somewhere the wonderful rainbow of colours wouldn't be immediately appreciated.

To use, install Greasemonkey, then click the link above. Once it's installed, right-click on the liddle monkey face at the bottom of your browser, and select 'Manage Scripts'. Click on 'Lighten' in the script list, then 'Add' to add a site. If you want to lighten all of Barbelith, add 'http://www.barbelith.com/*'. If you only want to mute some of the more outrageous shades, simply replace the asterisk with the url of the forum you'd like to lighten.

Have fun, and please don't kick the arse out of my bandwidth. Mirrors appreciated if anyone's got some spare.
 
 
Happy Dave
12:22 / 22.05.07
Oh, yeah, forgot to mention, if you prefer your Barbelith in black, you can simply install Lifehacker's extension and add the same URL to the script.

Plus, you can enable and disable the script at will by right-clicking the monkey face and ticking or unticking 'Lighten'.
 
 
Happy Dave
12:51 / 22.05.07
Oh, and remove the '*' at the top of the Site list unless you want all your websites to be monotone.
 
 
Boboss
13:34 / 22.05.07
This would've suited me down to the ground when I was working in the hell pit known as Legal & General
 
 
Happy Dave
13:40 / 22.05.07
Yes, sorry Boboss, bit late for you. It was your original Monochrome Barbelith thread that inspired me to do it, just took a bit longer for me to work it out.
 
 
XK
15:49 / 22.05.07
It's great! cheers 7's!
 
 
Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.
(prev. Stoatie's power level is >9000)
15:59 / 22.05.07
Wow. That would be perfect for my uptight work, were it not for the fact that they're so uptight we can't install anything.

Bastards.
 
 
Happy Dave
16:27 / 22.05.07
Do you use Firefox at work Stoatie? If not, I might be able to fix something up for IE. Gimme a sec.
 
 
Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.
(prev. Stoatie's power level is >9000)
16:31 / 22.05.07
IE.

Still not sure if I can customise it, but I'd love to try.
 
 
Happy Dave
17:00 / 22.05.07
Nope, can't figure it out.

However, if you browse to the Lifehacker link in the first post, put the 'Darken' bookmarklet into your toolbar, then right-click it, select Properties and do the following, it might work.

In the following code, change the bolded bits:

javascriptfunction(){var newSS, styles='* { background: black ! important; color: grey !important } :link, :link * { color: #0000EE !important } :visited, :visited * { color: #551A8B !important }'; if(document.createStyleSheet) { document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'"+styles+"'"); } else { newSS=document.createElement('link'); newSS.rel='stylesheet'; newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles); document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS); } })();

to 'white' and 'black' respectively.

Then, on each page of Barbelith, click the bookmarklet, and it'll Monochrome it for you.
 
 
MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!
21:25 / 23.05.07
Can't seem to get it to work... I followed the instructions but it's not, er, lightening; Greasemonkey says "No scripts installed!" at the top of the right-click menu even after a successful install of the Lighten script. Quitting Firefox and re-starting "loses" the script.

Mac OS X 10.4.9 and Firefox 1.5.011.
 
 
Happy Dave
23:19 / 23.05.07
Hey Matt,

I too am running on a Mac and got it to install fine - it may be an issue with your Greasemonkey install. Try removing the extension and re-installing. Once you've added the Lighten script, and added in Barbelith and all its subdomains, you should be able to refresh the page and see the new monotone colour scheme applied.
 
 
MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!
15:38 / 24.05.07
It just kicked in now! Fantastic! If there's any way to get the blue bolded link text to become just black bolded, that would be the crowning glory.

Aesthetically, I think I may even like this better. Text In The Void is quite striking.
 
 
MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!
15:43 / 24.05.07
Quick warning to others, though: "Recently updated threads" shunts to a colour version of the site unless you have both http://barbelith.com and http://www.barbelith.com in the Lighten zones.
 
 
Happy Dave
18:34 / 24.05.07
Hmm, yes, I believe there'd be a way to do this. At the moment Blue bold is for unvisited hyperlinks, and purple is for visited. These are set by hex values in the script itself. I can amend the script to go ALL black and white, and links should still be underlined.

Will let you know when the new version is ready.
 
 
Happy Dave
18:42 / 24.05.07
Okay, new version is up. Click here to get it.

It's probably best to uninstall the original script before trying to install this one so you don't get any conflicts. Make sure to tick the 'and associated preferences' bit too.
 
 
MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!
18:39 / 29.05.07
I am enjoying the ENTIRE DAMN INTERNET much more using this plugin. Seriously, this is beautiful.
 
 
Boboss
21:05 / 29.05.07
Dave, although I'm not using it, I just want to point out that you are a champ.

That is all.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
(prev. Dazzler)
22:24 / 29.05.07
I'm rotating between Lighten, Darken and Normal Barbelith.

Am enjoying myself immensely.

A vast amount of thanks, Dave.
 
 
Happy Dave
21:16 / 09.06.07
My pleasure folks.
 
 
MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!
14:49 / 12.06.07
Request, not for 7's necessarily, but in general: is there any way to set Firefox to say "do not display any images in, or linked from, barbelith.com"?

I can Adblock barbelith-hosted images (which gets rid of &?%$ smilies!) and also the big Barbelith logo, but external links still show up.
 
 
Happy Dave
12:59 / 13.06.07
In Firefox, go to Tools > Options > Content. Then tick the 'Load Images automatically' box, click the Exceptions button, and enter 'http://www.barbelith.com/*' as a 'Block'. Or untick it to stop all domains from loading images, and put the websites you want to allow as exceptions.
 
 
MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!
13:05 / 13.06.07
Huzzah! You, zir, are the wind beneath my wings!
 
 
Happy Dave
14:25 / 13.06.07
*happy geek glow*
 
  
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