Comments on: FIxing text/plain HTML in Firefox

By: sil

sil — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:22:42 +0000

Anonymous: no idea, I’m afraid.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 01:47:47 +0000

does this not work with safari or…?

By: Phil Ringnalda

Phil Ringnalda — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Would attaching yourself as an onload handler work? The otherwise annoying flicker as it fully renders as text and then re-renders as HTML might serve as a handy warning, to remind you of what’s happening when it inevitably converts a plain text source example you didn’t want converted.

By: sil

sil — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Phil: you’re too clever for words. I didn’t think of that. I’ll have a crack at that one, I think.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

For issue one, you could HEAD the host with XMLHttpRequest to get the content-type. Not a lot of code involved with that as evidenced with the rewrite of my response header viewer favelet.

By: Jeremy Dunck

Jeremy Dunck — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Stuart,
You are indeed correct that the cause is where Greasemonkey hooks in.
We’re using DOMContentLoaded, an unpublisized Moz-specific event which has the benefit of occuring before rendering but after the DOM is loaded.
This is the first mention of trouble we’ve had, and I’d generally say that avoiding the flicker problems associated w/ hooking in later are more valuable than allowing replacement of the DOM.

Phil’s solution is indeed a good approach.

Good data, but I don’t think this qualifies as a GM bug, do you?

By: sil

sil — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Jeremy: I agree that it’s not a GM bug, which is why I haven’t filed one :)
I shall just addEventListener() an onload handler instead, as Phil suggested. No idea why I didn’t think of this myself; must have been being thick that day.

By: Bill Donnelly

Bill Donnelly — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

what’s the status of this project?

By: sil

sil — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Bill: it’s in “I’ll do it when I get a sufficiently round tuit” state. Meanwhile, the bookmarklet referenced above does do the work required.

By: Bill Donnelly

Bill Donnelly — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

The bookmarklet above doesn’t work for me
(in the one case I tried it on;
and I don’t like the code, anyway),
and I didn’t want to wait for a solution,
so I decided to mess with it myself.

Here is my rather elegant solution
(if I do say so myself; and I often do)
as a bookmarklet that I will make into a GmScript.
Whether I publish it, or not, will depend on
what others come up with, if anything.

SPOILER ALERT! Don’t look at the following code
if you want to solve the problem yourself.

javascript:(function() {var sDoc=window.document.body.innerHTML; if(sDoc.substr(0,11)==”

"&&
sDoc.search(/<html>/i)!=-1&&
sDoc.search(/<\/html>/i)!=-1){
sDoc=sDoc.substr(11).substr(0,sDoc.length-24);
window.document.open();
window.document.writeln(sDoc.replace(/&([gl])t;/g,
function(pStr,pP1,pOffset,pS){
return(pP1=='g'?'>':'<')}));
window.document.close();}})();
 
(I had to mess with the code to make it
display correctly here -- hope it worked)