New Features

In Page Comment Links

When a link in a diary or a comment refers to another comment in that diary, a left click is intercepted, and scrolls the page to the appropriate location. This is independent of where the link actually points. I.e. the case where the link is to the www.eurotrib/comments/... page, rather than to an in-page anchor, it still just scrolls the page. (This applies to the parent link of a comment, most notably). Further, when the page is scrolled in this manner, the comment scrolled to has a 'BACK' link added after the title. Clicking the 'BACK' scrolls the page 'BACK' to where we originated. This is very useful in long threads when it is unclear exactly which comment the current one is in response to, and the 'BACK' gets you back fast without need to find the correct place again. All these links display in green, by default, to distinguish them from other links. You may change the color, or turn the feature off in the TribExt preference interface. (Found under Tools->Add-ons). Note that the link itself is not changed. If you open it in a new tab, or copy it, you will get a link to wherever it pointed.

Find unread replies to your comments

A way to find replies to your comments, or rather ancestor comments of ones you have written. This function is located under the 'tools' menu item. (Only available when Eurotrib is the current page.) It opens a new tab, looks through the last 50 comments you have made, and find any new comments in the sub-threads under those. The results are gathered in the new tab, and a 'DONE' alert is sent. This function ends up doing a bunch of calls to the ET server, and may take some time to finish. One may therefore continue with the browsing of other stuff, and when the search is done, the browser will let you know. -- This feature will not work if you were having problems with the dynamic ratings.

Next and Previous New Comment

Now scrolls horizontally as well, so that comments in wide threads can be more easily read

Comment widths

When comment nesting becomes very deep, top level comments tend to become very wide, and deeply nested ones very narrow. This makes reading difficult. The extension now sets the maximum width of a comment as the window width minus 50px, and the minimum comment width as 10% of the window width. The diary width is set to a maximum of 75% of the window width. This should prevent text from running longer than the window width, and allow deeply nested comments to be wide enough to read. The minimum and maximum comment widths are settable through the extension preference interface. Things will still look a bit funny with deeply nested threads. There is nothing to be done about the right column of the ET page running far, far right when the comments get very wide, for example. But I think things become more readable this way. Oh, and clicking the date link of a comment is an excellent way to scroll it both horizontally and vertically into a good position to read. (Works via the In Page Comment Link functionality above.)

Ratings

Fixed so that dynamic ratings are available from all pages that allow normal comment ratings.
There is now an option for 'oldschool' ratings. These work in the traditional way, i.e. you have to click the 'Rate All' button. If you have clicked ratings buttons on a page and try to navigate away from it, you will be reminded to register the ratings. This option is included for those that for whom the dynamic ratings do not work.

Copy HTML

Fixed to provide correct links when copied from Eurotrib reply page.

Translate

Updated to reflect Google's expanded language set. Also, I had identified the French apostrophe to cause problems with Google translate. This was fixed by replacing it with a single forward quote before sending on for translation.