Drama at Les Blogs:

“See that person, dotben, who’s dotben? All day long and yesterday you have been an asshole to people who have been in this panel, and I wanna know, why don’t you… What the fuck?” — Mena Trott to an IRC heckler

I think I have a new favorite Trott.

Well, it looks like I was wrong about the Bloglines Continuous Update script being outmoded. Though Bloglines does display a running tally of unread items in the page title now, they don’t take the obvious next step of using their own API to see if that number is up to date. So I took out all of the code that counted unread items and displayed the total (which was a lot of code), and now all the script does is check the API for updates and reload the subscription panel if it finds them. Get it here.

Because I had trouble finding it, and ended up having to reassemble the XPI myself (based on these instructions), here are some updated dictionaries for Spellbound to work with FireFox 1.5.

Scripts that have been updated, in some way, due to Firefox 1.5 and Greasemonkey 0.6.4:

• Flickr Photo Page Enhancer: It originally used GM_XmlHttpRequest, that went away in GM 0.3.5 due to security reasons, I replaced it with regular XmlHttpRequest, which went away as a side effect of new security measures in 0.6.*, but GM_XmlHttpRequest is back. Did that make any sense to you? Me neither.
  Update 04-Dec-05: Okay, now it uses E4X and it’s pretty and elegant. Whee!

• Flickr Thumbnails Enhancer Same reason as above, same ugly, ugly hacky solution to the problem.
• del.icio.us >> My Web: del.icio.us redesigned (and might I say damn fine job), and this script was highly dependent on the page structure. Fixed.
• Yahoo User Persistence Thing: There was an existing bug with selecting “Other..” not working correctly.
• Update 03-Dec-05: Flickr Rich Edit, Flickr Tag Quick Edit, and Flickr User Icon Enhancer: Done in by changes to unsafeWindow. Fixed.

Also, several scripts that are no longer useful are no longer under active development. These include the Flickr Login Thing (Yahoo Login Thing pretty much covers that), the Bloglines thing (now built into Bloglines… when did that happen?), and several one-offs that I made on request but don’t actually use myself.