Dinosaur Comics Overlay Chooser (version 1.7; 4 August)

[The Royal Locksmith]

T-REX, YOU SHOULD HAVE HELPED!

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comi...osaurcomicever

[Gordon]

Congratulations, Gordon. You just retroactively ruined Dinosaur Comics.

you're welcome.

[Myke]

T-REX, YOU SHOULD HAVE HELPED!

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comi...osaurcomicever

S- haha YES

A- I only knew about one or two of the overlays, so this is just...
thank you

[La Diable]

Oh T-Rex, don't you know the Greek gods will always get you in the end.

[Achille'sHamstring]

Oh my goodness this is awesome. I knew that the overlays existed (not ALL of them, but like three or four) but I would never think about their existence for the most part when I was reading.

But that I'm reminded by a nice little box that they exist, now I can enjoy the same Dinosaur Comic like a dozen times, which is pretty much great.

[Didero]

I've been dreaming about this (while actively not learning to write javascript). It's brilliant. (A hearty gefeliciteerd to Didero.)

Thanks
Luckily I did decide to learn Javascript, making these GreaseMonkey scripts is fun.

A- I only knew about one or two of the overlays, so this is just...
thank you

Yeah, while making the script I found out there were a lot more overlays than I initially thought too.

Oh my goodness this is awesome. I knew that the overlays existed (not ALL of them, but like three or four) but I would never think about their existence for the most part when I was reading.

But that I'm reminded by a nice little box that they exist, now I can enjoy the same Dinosaur Comic like a dozen times, which is pretty much great.

Yeah, it's a shame those overlays were hidden like that. They're a great little bonus to the comic itself.

[Ryan North]

but... but I like SECRETS

[Didero]

but... but I like SECRETS

But the world shouldn't be deprived of easy access to Bat-Rex!

[Chwoka]

This one's pretty good.

[Sandafluffoid]

Oh man, this increases my interwebs enjoyment by a factor of plus 10, and reduces my productively spent free time by a factor of -everything. AWESOME, thank you super lots!

Also I am pretty fond of this one

[Nimz]

This may be the best clothed T-rex one, if only for the hover text.

[Fish]

Wait, is Dinosaur comics a retelling of Groundhog's Day? Is T-rex reliving the last day of his and his friends' life? I think the answer is obvious.

OH SHIIIII-

I have nothing constructive to add, other than that this is so great!

[admiralYoshi]

I'm still waiting on this overlay to be implemented.

[Puc The Demon]

I want a Gamzee overlay just for this comic...
http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2068

[DemonHide]

Gives an code-unsavvy guy like me a reason to install Greasemonkey! This is really cool =D

[DevilEd]

This is too fitting.

[kishkumerr]

Hello i'm new on this forum and Thank you ! This script is pretty awesome.

[Reecer6]

oh noooooo
Script doesn't show any options! I click on the chooser and the space isn't even big enough for text.

[Didero]

Oh man, this increases my interwebs enjoyment by a factor of plus 10, and reduces my productively spent free time by a factor of -everything. AWESOME, thank you super lots!

Gives an code-unsavvy guy like me a reason to install Greasemonkey! This is really cool =D

Hello i'm new on this forum and Thank you ! This script is pretty awesome.

Glad to see my script makes you guys so happy

oh noooooo
Script doesn't show any options! I click on the chooser and the space isn't even big enough for text.

Hmm, the site design must have changed a bit then, I have the same bug. NOOOORTH *shakes fist*
Thanks for pointing it out, I'll look into it.


EDIT: All right, finally found the problem. For some reason I had to use a different method to populate the dropdown list. Maybe a new Javascript version or a change in Firefox or something, I dunno. You're off the hook for now, Ryan.
Anyway, the new 1.4 version fixed the problem, at the cost of making the sourcecode slightly harder to read (nested functions! stray keywords!). Oh well, nobody's gonna read it anyway
Download link is in the first post, and here!

[Didero]

I know I shouldn't double-post, but I'm not sure if people will see the edit of the previous post otherwise. I fixed the bug, the latest version should work normally again.

[Ryan North]

Hooray!

[Didero]

All right, after some work, I managed to implement the latest overlay, the one with the SOPA/PIPA protest (It's about a month old, I know, I know. I missed a few updates). Turns out those overlay names are case sensitive!

But I also started thinking about the location of the dropdown list. In the header is functional, but it looks a bit stuffed in there. Therefore I tried a few different locations, and I'd like your opinion on where it would look best.
For reference, here's the comic section without my script active, and with the current location of the selection box:

show spoiler

hide spoiler

I thought about putting it between the header and the comic, which would allow me room for a label in front of the dropdown box. There's two places for it:

show spoiler

hide spoiler

There's also plenty of room below the comic:

show spoiler

hide spoiler

I could possibly also add all of them and let users choose, but that would be bloating the script and would probably also be the start of feature creep.

Let me know what you guys and girls prefer!
I'll upload the new version tomorrow, with the location change (if there is any), since I'm leaving for a week tomorrow afternoon.

[Solaris]

I think below the comic looks the most pleasing?
It also works a bit thematically because it would be "well I read that comic but I would rather be reading...."

[OrangeAipom]

I think below the comic looks the most pleasing?
It also works a bit thematically because it would be "well I read that comic but I would rather be reading...."

Seconding. But keep the space after the colon. I like the space.

Maybe bold it so it matches the text on the top.

(yes i am totally posting here to show off my ryan north avatar)

[Nimz]

With the current Utahraptor/T-Rex conversation setup, putting the box immediately below that adds some flavour. Hey, T-Rex, there's this book that features us! *T-Rex says something cool* ... but I would rather be reading [xyz]. >_>

That setup probably will not last forever, though, so directly below the comic might be the most long-term sensible. The only possible issue I can think of is for the one that has a tiny screen (e.g. due to reading on a netbook), as thon might have to scroll down to get to the dropdown menu? But if thon downloads the script, it seems likely thon will know the menu should be there and look for it accordingly.