It's annoying to scan your del.icio.us inbox when you can't tell why an an item is there. Is this link there because someone whose links you watch posted it, or because some complete stranger tagged it with a word you watch? With the low contrast of the link metadata section, it's hard to tell immediately. So I fixed it with Greasemonkey.
As you can see from the last two links, there are a couple kinks to work out: the tag has to match the case of your subscription, and users who share a name with a tag will get wrongly highlighted. However I wanted to do the highlighting in CSS with attribute selectors, and I don't see how to fix those problems without switching techniques, and I sooo didn't want to scrub all the links in the file manually. So there you are.
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Seems interesting. Though del.icio.us/inbox is often out of reach or out of sync. :/ Anyway installed your user script .. i’ll test it if i get my inbox/ back .. one day may be ;)
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Yeah, inbox is flakier than the rest of del.icio.us. It’s been pretty good for me lately though.
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Hi, found my way here through the del.icio.us inbox (hah!) and wanted to try out the script, but somehow it refuses to work for me. GM is enabled, I tried refreshing and even restarting, but there aren’t any yellow highlights on the page. Firefox 1.0.4, GM 0.3.3.
The “hide duplicate links on del.icio.us” script didn’t work for me either, so maybe there’s something wrong with my inbox…
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Hmm, it does work for me on your inbox. I’m using Firefox 1.0.4 and Greasemonkey 0.3.3 as well. Do you have any other del.icio.us Greasemonkey scripts running? You might try disabling them temporarily to see if it makes mine work; I don’t know why that might matter but like everyone else I’m still learning Greasemonkey.
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I tried disabling all other scripts, but it still doesn’t seem to work. The problem is probably on my end; I have way too many extensions installed and couldn’t get Greasemonkey to work at all before the 0.3.3 release. Would have been a nice feature to have, but it’s not that much of an issue. :-)
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Hrm, may be. Sorry I couldn’t help. :/
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Are you gzipping the user scripts? I’m just finding out it doesn’t work on my work machine either (I’m not even sure if I installed it at home, come to think of it), and the script was garbled (GM has issues with gzipped user scripts) — when saving it local first and then installing it I got it to work though :)
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I’m not gzipping it myself, no. Maybe there’s something weird with mod_gzip going on (but I didn’t set that up myself, so I don’t think there is).
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excellent idea!