strib 'see all pages' bookmarklet
february 17, 2009 @
23:24
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Maybe it's just me - seriously, maybe it is - but doesn't it seem like the Strib has really cranked up the pagination insanity to some new level of cuckoo for cocoa puffs lately? Take, for example, this recent piece about 4 Thai restaurants in town. It spans 4 pages. I know, right? Right. Worse yet: the 'continue to next page' link is like 25 scrolls away, hidden under the sidebar. Ugh.
Anyway, I found myself url hacking to get all the pages on a single page. It's not hard, you add a page=all parameter and it shows all the pages. Nice.
Then I made a bookmarket, so all I have to do when I open an article is click this button on my bookmarks bar and it shows all the pages. Here, you can use it, too. Just drag this link to your bookmarks bar.
I know, right? Totally.
It's prob not feature complete. It's certainly not guaranteed to work. I tested it on chrome and firefox for like 30 seconds. Have at it.
Juettner thought:
All I do when I open an article is hit the little "print this story" link tucked half a page down and you get the same thing only without all the ads.
Your way is cool too.
dave thought:
Yeah, I did that a few times, too, but the 'print' dialog pop-up thing was annoying to me, hence the 'all pages' solution. Plus, I don't really mind the layout with the colors and the pics and stuff.
Indeed juettner, we are both cool.
Jason DeRusha thought:
Sweet! This works for me at home on Firefox, I'll check at work on IE. Great stuff.
psoulen thought:
Nice Dave. That's really helpful. What was even more annoying in Safari? Not only having to click to jump pages but having to click stop in the "slow script" window. Can't they streamline the ads?
I know the Strib is in some trouble but they don't have to be as gnarly as all that do they? I get disgusted by the minor updates they do on some stories and then give it a new banner...
Sometimes leftovers are tasty, this is not one of those times.
jaime thought:
dude, you rock. now i don't have to listen to my husband complain about this any longer. and being that we live in a 9x6 trailer...yay!
Huna thought:
I assume you wrote unit tests first.
dave thought:
Not only that, I designed the "click bookmarklet" process as BPEL.
tony thought:
It looks like the Strib made a change so your fix no longer works. Am I the only one who's noticed this so far? It worked earlier this morning.
dave thought:
yep, it's dead. fun while it lasted i guess.
thought:
The "print this" works well. You can even load up a number of stories to read in separate windows and then just get out of the Strib entirely.
dave thought:
fyi new post with new workaround here. 30-15.