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eBay Forums Visited Links For Manual IE Custom CSS |
| Date Added: |
| 2009-05-06 04:56:05 |
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For use with IE7PRO and IE7 or IE8 for this part manual custom and javascript method which is the fastest as much less delay due to most of the work is done with the CSS stylesheet. This script with IE7PRO makes it so that the date visited links works. Can use the same method for the Maxthon browser for the css.
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The custom Ad Blocking, Css, Reload button sections
- Ads Blocking -
The IE7PRO Ad Blocker does not work in IE8. If it works for you in IE7 it is a very nice program so only need to use Privoxy if it does not (or could use Proxomitron if it can do the following). Install Privoxy at http://www.privoxy.org to use for blocking specific images and javascript. - Should have it set so it automatically starts with Windows. If finding that Privoxy is blocking from a site you do not want, in user.action go to allow-ads and add lines like these.
.google.com
.googlesyndication.com
Can also right click the Privoxy icon in the system tray and uncheck enable if wanting to see a page without any blocking. In Vista can right click on the installation folder and set the permissions so you can more easily modify the files.
In IE go to Tools - Internet Options - Connections tab - Lan settings button. Click on Use a proxy server ... if it is unchecked and enter 127.0.0.1 for the Address and 8118 for the Port.
NOTE: Will need to have it running at all times to use the internet or would need to uncheck that section temporarily but might as well utilize a very nice free ad blocking program to use for a number of ad blocks for other sites as well. Most types of blocks could be done as shown below.
Open Wordpad (if using Vista need to right click on Wordpad and Run as administrator). Locate the user.action file in the installed Privoxy folder and open it.
Search for the word Nasty. Below that section put
forums.ebay.com/images/no_photo_thumb.gif
forums.ebay.com/images/no_photo.gif
pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/community/myWorld/imgBuddyBig1.gif
forums.ebay.com/ebdb/scripts/thread-tooltip.js
forums.ebay.com/ebdb/scripts/leftnav.js
Go to the bottom of the file. Below the set-image-blocker section
add the following so no image replacement shows. Needs to be above the #/ line.
forums.ebay.com/images/no_photo_thumb.gif
forums.ebay.com/images/no_photo.gif
pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/community/myWorld/imgBuddyBig1.gif
To limit Privoxy to user rules, in the config.txt can do this
#actionsfile match-all.action
which says do not filter for all sites.
May need to close the browser and re-open it and then go to the ebay forums.
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- Create Css file -
Create a folder under C: like C:/IeUser and open up Wordpad. Copy and paste this into Wordpad and save it as user.css in that folder (make sure it does not have a .txt suffix).
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
/* IE Internet Explorer browser Style Sheet */
/* (Start eBay Forums section) */
/* Hide some elements by css id and class to remove the left and bottom with a few top sections ; if wanting to hide the right side add #sidebar-column, to the beginning of the line */
#lw-navMyTopics,#my-topics-more,#thread-icon-legend,.thread-snippet,.announcement-body,.g-hlp,.g-pipe,.hprcp_e,.hprcp_n,.hprcp_w,.icon-forums,.jive-page-title,.jive-portlet-box,.live-page-description,.live-powered-by,.lw-announcement,.lw-featured-message-author-photo-avatar,.lw-left-nav,.lw-page-description,.mtitle,.pipe,.pnav,.snav,.rotator,.RTRemarQPanel1TD,.sidebar-minimize-control,.topictip {display: expression((document.domain == "forums.ebay.com") ? "none" : "inline") !important;}
/* Do not show the bottom horizontal scroll bar */
body {overflow-x:expression((document.domain == "forums.ebay.com") ? "hidden" : "inline") !important;}
/* Miscellaneous link colors - should be ordered by link visited hover active */
#forum a:link {color:blue !important;}
#forum a:visited {color:navy !important;font-style:italic !important;font-weight:400 !important;}
#forum a:hover {color:darkgreen !important;text-decoration:none !important;}
#forum a:active {color:blue !important;}
/* Main thread link on topics page */
*html #forum .lw-threadlist-row td a:link h2 {color:#23238E !important;font-family:arial !important;font-size:11pt !important;letter-spacing:1px !important;font-weight:light !important;}
*html #forum .lw-threadlist-row td a:visited h2 {color:navy !important;font-family:arial !important;font-size:11pt !important;letter-spacing:1px !important;font-style:italic !important;font-weight:400 !important;}
*html #forum .lw-threadlist-row td a:hover h2 {color:darkgreen !important;font-family:arial !important;font-size:11pt !important;letter-spacing:1px !important;}
/* Date link section which goes to the last post in the thread */
* html #forum .jive-last-post.lw-text {background:#E6E4E4 !important;border-bottom:1px dotted #A5AEC5 !important;letter-spacing:1px !important;}
/* Visited date link does not work but can use this javascript with IE7PRO to fix it http://iescripts.org/view-scripts-568p1.htm */
/* Change link colors for Reply and Link in the threads */
.reply-button {color:blue !important;}
.lw-text a {color:blue !important;}
.lw-text a:visited {color:navy !important;}
/* Change background colors for any odd row areas */
.lw-threadlist-topic, .lw-thread-replies, .lw-user-photo, .lw-author-photo-frame, .lw-author-photo-bezel, .lw-photo, .lw-threadlist-row, .lw-threadlist-row-odd, .jive-bullet, .thread-icons, .ebayUpdate-img, .tacked-img, .thread-divider-container, .thread-divider, .lw-threadlist-row .lw-threadlist-row-odd, .lw-thread-body-user, .lw-message-row-odd {background:white !important;}
/* (End of eBay Forums section) */
/* ------------------------- */
/* Other site specific or global css below */
/* Maximum width for images */
img {max-width:600px !important;width:expression(this.width > 600 ? 600: true) !important;}
/* Scroll bar color */
body {scrollbar-face-color:#808080;scrollbar-arrow-color:#FFFFFF;scrollbar-highlight-color:#FFFBF0;scrollbar-3dlight-color:#808080;scrollbar-shadow-color:#FFFBF0;scrollbar-darkshadow-color:#808080;scrollbar-track-color:#CCCCCC;width:auto !important;}
Now could go back into IE - Tools - Internet Options - Accessibility button - check format documents using my style sheet. Browse to the location you placed the user.css on your computer.
Close the browser and bring it back up and should work. If already using the installed script disable it at least temporarily to see how this works (do not want two types running). If preferring the script over this manual method rename that user.css file if not planning to use any user specified css globally for IE or remove the ebay forum lines. Can add other global css lines that will work for other sites.
Can add these to the beginning of the Hide some elements section if wanting to hide the right column.
.sidebar, #sidebar2, #sidebar-column,
Could remove the Maximum width for images and everything below that and the forum would still look nice. The max-width line is great though and most times should not hurt viewing pages on other sites but believe that can be added as a filter to the Privoxy.
Using this script in addition to the manual method and the visited links for the date will work.
This manual method is the fastest as does not have that redraw delay and with IE8 very nice.
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- Create IE Refresh button -
Maybe a better way to reload and could use this Favorites "button" to reload every page versus using the regular IE Refresh button.
One way to create Bookmarklets / Favlets to use with the Favorites bar in IE (need to make sure that is checked by right clicking on the toolbar).
Type about:blank in the address url and then Create Shortcut on your desktop. Rename the aboutblank to Reload or Refresh. Right click on it and select Properties. Click on Change icon. There is not many too choose from so create a New Folder on your desktop (right click on the desktop - New - Folder). Click on it and then right click on that folder and click on the Customize tab and then click on Change Icon. Now copy what is in the Look for icons in this file to the other open Properties for the shortcut and paste into and press enter and can select one that is more fitting. Click Ok then Apply then Ok (on Vista may have to answer Yes Ok a couple of times to make it work). Open up IE and move it to the right so you can see the new shortcut. Drag with the right mouse into the Favorites bar where you want. Right click on that shortcut and go to Properties. Enter this into the URL: field
javascript:window.location.reload( true );
Click Apply - may need to answer Yes - Click Ok - may need to answer Yes. You now have another way to reload/refresh every page versus using the IE Reload button and can use this for the eBay forums and every page you visit on the internet.
Can also create folders that can be used for the Favorites bar and select nice icons to use for them. And then drag those into the Favorites bar. But before doing that might want to put whatever shortcuts/favorites into it. Can later move that folder onto the desktop and do it that way or use the Favorites - Organize Favorites and move items as you like - will find the Favorites bar in that. So can have a line of various folders which will have a dropdown menu of shortcuts or favlets/bookmarklets to select from. For example, could have one for Apps and create a shortcut for Wordpad in it. Another one could be MyLinks and that is where your most used links are in. One for Search for like Google, Live, Yahoo, Ask etc. One for Favlets etc. A very nice way to have an organizer / manager for your IE toolbar.
Example as to how the IE toolbar can look like
http://profile.imageshack.us/user/myscripts/images/detail/#4/ie8toolbar.jpg
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- Other Notes -
To prevent IE crashing, some say disable "basic functions" under Modules in IE7PRO for now. In ie7pro I unchecked modules Forms, Mini download, online services, other unchecked and unchecked Enable plugins for now. Only using Ad Blocker, scripts, and Spell Checker and that so far appears to have stopped the periodic ie crash but some could be just fine.
May not need to do this but in IE7 a way to disable onmouseover - Enable ie7Pro Ad Blocker and add filter /ebdb/scripts/thread-tooltip.js to block. Could also add /ebdb/scripts/leftnav.js as a block filter if not using this script but want to prevent the hover over effect. The leftnav one affects the hover over popup on the far left but that is hidden so not really necessary to block that but could be one less script loaded. I also unchecked Enable default filter rules as some ad blockers are too agressive and sometimes it is better to manually add the blocks.
The javascript does not work right with the IE browser Reload/Refresh so to make this easier is to use the Links part of the IE7 browser. See http://www.microsoft.com/windows/about/customizelinks.mspx as could create a link to the forums and then just use that to quickly reload / refresh the page, but see above as think that button is a better way to do this. Those are like toolbar buttons and can rename them to be very short. If they have a favicon image could just name it with one letter. So it is better not to use the IE7 refresh button on the ebay forums with this script. To refresh the thread pages can simply use the Go link at the bottom.
May want to see some of the elements that are hidden so can modify as you see fit. Can remove the right side as well - see how in the css code. Can add these to the Hide some elements section if wanting to hide the right column. .sidebar, #sidebar2, #sidebar-column,
Installed IE8 RC1 with leaving the IE7PRO settings the way described above works well. And IE8 uses the Find like Firefox. Also noticed a nice speed improvement with IE8. If the script does not work at first in IE8 try closing the browser and bringing it back up.
If re-installing this script make sure to uncheck or remove the other one first if the name of this script changes and might want to keep a copy if you had modified the other one.
If using or testing this one out make sure to uncheck any other javascripts first that do similar things.
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This is another variation and using all javascript which is a combination of Css and Js but has the redraw delay. Do not need to do any custom stuff with it but the manual one above has the speed improvement. IE7 IE8 Browser EBay Forum Content Photo Hover Rip Javascript http://www.iescripts.org/view-scripts-566p1.htm |
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| IE7Pro is a plugin for the Internet Explorer web browser. It allows you to change how your favorite pages behave and look. There are many scripts that have already been written, and if you know javascript you can easily create your own! This site is a repository to download and install IE user scripts. |
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