FYI for userscript authors

[tuff_ghost]

If your userscript @requires jQuery, and your users are on Firefox, it's going to break JS running on Ao3 since the latest deploy, particularly the JS which shows modal boxes and hides the Share code on works.

If you're like me you were @requiring jQuery because you wanted your script to run in Chrome on Tampermonkey (where your script is sandboxed away from the host jQuery instance), and you didn't want to maintain two different copies of your script for Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey.

So, @require jQuery breaks stuff in Firefox, but you still need jQuery in Chrome. The solution is to get your jQuery instance from unsafeWindow.jQuery - this will point to the host instance of jQuery.


(function($) {
// your code which uses jQuery normally as $
})(unsafeWindow.jQuery);

Comments

[tuff_ghost]

That's fine, I don't mind at all. I had the scripts as github gists earlier, but people found them too difficult to install, that's the only reason I moved to userscripts.

You might find browser storage useful for what you're trying to do; I never looked at GM_setValue but I found localstorage pretty easy to work with.

[flamebyrd]

*nods* I think userscripts.org is a great place to store them, just for the ease-of-installation factor.

Thanks, I'll also look into localStorage - I had considered it but my non-comprehensive Googling indicated that it might be a little flakey with userscripts.