Greasepostmonkeycoding
July 27th, 2005Oh no, I broke the golden rule and started mucking around with Greasemonkey, which was a mistake, as I have now wasted this entire evening. Anyway, it is fun to play with custom code in webpages, and after basically looking at other people’s code I’ve come up with a simple little widget - it turns any UK postcode in a page (which is not already inside a hyperlink) into a hyperlink to the relevant Google Maps map for the area - e.g. SW1A 2AA becomes SW1A 2AA. Want to try? Install it from here (you must have Greasemonkey installed first, obviously - download it here). Enjoy. Lots of it is derived from others’ work - credits are in the source code. Any bugs, report in the comments below.
July 28th, 2005 at 16:05:20
Stalker!
July 28th, 2005 at 19:33:43
???
July 29th, 2005 at 00:14:12
I think the good gentleman is suggesting that the desire to see a map of every postcode mentioned on the internet betrays a psychopathology not dissimilar to that of a stalker.
As a dedicated and talented stalker myself, I have to say that he’s absolutely right. I’m going to install greasemonkey as soon as the 0.4.x comes out of alpha. It’s a hell of a lot cheaper than a decent pair of night vision goggles…
July 29th, 2005 at 14:25:41
0.3.5 (the latest version without a security hole) is good enough to run scripts that don’t require cross-domain access (like mine), in case the wait for a stable and secure 0.4.x takes too long…