Sidki 2008-01-02 Beta Updates - Discussion

[sidki3003]

(Jan. 05, 2009 09:38 PM)Kye-U Wrote:  I will check all of your filters right now, and report back shortly.

Thanks. Not necessarily all posted updates, just those that ceased to work for you previously.

Quote:I'll contact you privately if I have a problem understanding how the filters work

Sure, whatever fits best.

Quote:EDIT: I noticed the background-image for the Dark Grey theme was "choppy", so I created a smoother one.

Good. It's your project now.


And oops, i forgot to add the two off-by-default filters. Here they are.

[Kye-U]

Please disregard the following filter

Code:

[Patterns]
Name = "Google: Cached Header Mover     8.11.29 [th sd] (d.s) [un-010509]"
Active = TRUE
URL = "$TYPE(htm)(64.233.1[#60:91]|66.(102.[#0:15]|249.[#64:95])|72.14.[#192:255]|74.125|209.85.[#128:255]|216.239.[#32:63]).[^/]+/(search|custom)\?*q=cache(:|%3)"
Limit = 4096
Match = "$STOP()*<div style=$AV(position : relative*) >&&("
        ""
        "*("
        "(<meta*> )\8|(<base*> )\9|of <a href=$AV(\1)*</a >[^<]++appeared on([^<]++GMT)\2"
        "|> <A HREF=$AV(http://$TST(uHost)(^.)&\4)$SET(3="
        "&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="ProxAlert Prox">"
        "<a class="Prox" href="\4">[toggle&nbsp;format]</a></span>"
        ")"
        "|highlighted: (($NEST(<span,</span >) \&nbsp; )+&&(\#(\"$SET(#=")|</$SET(#=</)))+\#)"
        ")"
        ""
        ")+*"
        "$SET(sSpec=$GET(sSpec)cached Header.)"
        "$SET(preBlock=$GET(preBlock)\8\9)"
        "$SET(dAll=$GET(dAll)"
        "<table class="Prox" style="display:$GET(displayI)"><tr><td>"
        "<span class="ProxAlert Prox">"
        "<a class="Prox" href="\1">\1</a></span>"
        "<span class="Prox"> at: \2.</span>\3"
        "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\@</td></tr></table>\n"
        ")"
Replace = "$GET(dAll)"

I found that everything was escaped (with "\\", so I simply removed them). Also, "$GET(dAll)" was missing from the Replacement Text. Test site: http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:Jp5z...cd=3&gl=ca

I'll report back with any other findings I may have to do some late Christmas shopping soon, but I will be sure to go through the other filters afterwards.

[sidki3003]

(Jan. 05, 2009 10:16 PM)Kye-U Wrote:  I found that everything was escaped (with "\\", so I simply removed them). Also, "$GET(dAll)" was missing from the Replacement Text. Test site: http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:Jp5z...cd=3&gl=ca

The content of the "dAll" global variable is passed to the Proxomitron script via a bottom filter. Additional content is pushed into the same var by many filters. The script requires certain characters to be escaped. Two reasons that i recall right now are XHTML (future configs) and XML (Ajax XHR) compliance.

With my version you should see the header info and the text toggle at the page bottom, no?

[Kye-U]

Ah, you're right

I think I'll need to take some time off of the computer to clear my head. Thanks for clarifying that; so far, all of the updated filters I've gone through look and function perfectly fine, just need to test a few more.

[Kye-U]

I tested all the filters and they all work fine!
I spent some time trying to understand the code; I feel I understand them a bit better, but I'll need to experiment.

[sidki3003]

(Jan. 10, 2009 12:21 AM)Kye-U Wrote:  I tested all the filters and they all work fine!

Good, thanks for checking. So the only new update right now is the gray PNG; i've copied it over already.

Quote:I spent some time trying to understand the code; I feel I understand them a bit better, but I'll need to experiment.

Sure -- A few notes:

Remove Ad Blocks:
One tricky thing is that Google often serves different code to US, UK, and Continental Europe IPs, respectively.

Certain searches - like "ipod" - with a US IP used to result in huge ad tables.
So one filter component slices those tables in 32 KB - hence removable - <!-- Strip Me --> parts. That code was a common effort of Mona and me, and is - although a one-liner - not so easy to understand for me and probably others.


Alternate Display Filters:
A year ago i've checked them with basically all localized frontpages. The only one which was - and still is - entirely mangled, is google.co.kr , but i didn't receive any complains yet, so...

The dark style filters contain an Easter egg.

[sidki3003]

P.S.: Just noticed a problem. With the dark Google themes in auto-complete mode the suggested search phrases are white - hence invisible - even if not selected. The light blue theme works as expected tho: unselected -> black font

Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=home&complete=1&hl=en

[Kye-U]

Easter Egg: something to do with Googel?

I've tried to recreate the problem, but I can't. I'm thinking it's a minor CSS fix.

Is it "Related searches" / "Searches related to", or is it "Did you mean"?

[sidki3003]

Yeah


If you go to above linked page, go into the input box, remove the final "e" from "home", a dropdown should open. Search suggestions left -- Hits right. The suggestions are invisible for me.

[Kye-U]

Ah, gotcha.

In google-dark.css, we need to add the following anywhere after line 29:

Code:

td.gac_c  { color: black; }

Line 29: div, td { color: white; }

[sidki3003]

(Jan. 10, 2009 08:50 PM)Kye-U Wrote:  Line 29: div, td { color: white; }

Ahh! I was just going to ask. So i've changed...

old:

Code:

/* Default text color */
div, td { color: white; }

/* Forms and Google Suggest */
input *, textarea *, .aAutoComplete { color: black; }

new:

Code:

/* Default text color */
div, td { color: white; }

/* Forms and Google Suggest */
input *, textarea *, .aAutoComplete, td.gac_c { color: black; }

[Kye-U]

Tested, and works perfectly

[sidki3003]

I'm in process of packaging the next config (beta 2). ProxRocks, are the Yahoo filters okay?

[ProxRocks]

yep, they're ok, i've not encountered any prob's...

though i've not "tested" this one Yahoo GeoCities: Clean up Stats/FileManager 7.05.26 (multi) [sd] (d.s)...
i'll need a "test site" to see what that one is (or isn't) doing...

[sidki3003]

That's alright. I guess i'll notice potential problems with that filter, once i upload the updated docs to GeoCities.