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

[jjhunter]

From your keyboard to admin's ear!

[tuff_ghost]

ah no, they were beating me up in the chatroom, demanding I write this. Ao3 devs are very cruel.

[jjhunter]

Well, as one of the people who has been *plagued* by wacky navigation display issues using the site on Firefox since the most recent site deploy, you have my deep & abiding thanks.