[NetBehaviour] A Google Chrome extension

dave miller dave.miller.uk at gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 13:55:30 CET 2016


Thanks Pall

That works well!

My next question (sorry to keep bothering you) is how would I replace all
the text on a page with blank space, except replace certain words with
other words?

Last question, honest!

dave

On 25 February 2016 at 17:16, Pall Thayer <pallthay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> You'll need to change the selector for the getElementsByTagName function:
>
> var elements = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
>
> Then you can loop through the results and change the 'src' attribute:
>
> for(var i=0;i < elements.length;i++) {
>     elements[i].src = 'a_different_image.png';
> }
>
> You would only need a single for loop for this. Not two nested ones like
> in the original.
>
> Best r.
> Pall
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:37 AM dave miller <dave.miller.uk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Pall
>> Have got it working in Chrome and am customising it.
>> It's really great!
>> How would I replace images in the content.js file?
>>
>> Sorry to bother you!
>>
>> dave
>>
>> On 25 February 2016 at 12:09, dave miller <dave.miller.uk at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Pall
>>> I think this could be a good way to tell stories by deleting and
>>> replacing content in web pages.
>>> Thanks for the code and will have a play.
>>> Dave
>>> On 25 Feb 2016 12:05, "Pall Thayer" <pallthay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Dave,
>>>>
>>>> I hadn't seen Nick's Deletionist but it sounds familiar. Either he has
>>>> mentioned it to me or I've come across it before. Fun to play with.
>>>>
>>>> Chrome extensions are pretty easy to create. They're mostly just
>>>> javascript. I used regular expressions to search and replace text in the
>>>> current document. I've attached the source code if you're interested in
>>>> exploring it.
>>>>
>>>> Best r.
>>>> Pall
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:25 AM dave miller <dave.miller.uk at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Pall and Bjorn
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you seen this from Nick Montfort and Amanda Borsuk (2013):
>>>>> http://thedeletionist.com/about.html
>>>>>
>>>>> The Deletionist is a concise system for automatically producing an
>>>>> erasure poem from any Web page. It systematically removes text to uncover
>>>>> poems, discovering a network of poems called “the Worl” within the World
>>>>> Wide Web.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also - bit of a different approach - translating web pages into slang:
>>>>> http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/
>>>>>
>>>>> The idea of filtering the news using a browser is interesting, as the
>>>>> news we receive is filtered anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>> How did you make the Google Chrome extension?
>>>>>
>>>>> dave
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11 February 2016 at 12:22, Pall Thayer <pallthay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I thought about that... i.e. that it would be interesting if users
>>>>>> could change settings to find and replace whatever they want with whatever
>>>>>> they want but didn't feel like digging too deep to figure out how to do
>>>>>> that. Who knows... maybe a plugin like that already exists.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best r.
>>>>>> Pall
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 5:34 AM Bjørn Magnhildøen <noemata at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> very cool - browsers should come with this feature default, the
>>>>>>> ability to add names, words, and expressions to a list to be
>>>>>>> automatically replaced or deleted, for whenever you're tired of...
>>>>>>> being branded (the consumer is consumed). imagine people starting to
>>>>>>> share and build subcultures of find and replace where google would
>>>>>>> only be known as gargoyle, facebook as [fill in], twit as twat or
>>>>>>> whatever, undermining business branding, or any concept or expression
>>>>>>> you're tired of being read into. and it's so simple.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Pall Thayer <pallthay at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> > I made a Google Chrome extension that replaces Republican
>>>>>>> candidates names
>>>>>>> > with their "rapper" nicknames...
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/repub-rappers/nndedgpdnlmbkapigoilbpdanfpiapka
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