[NetBehaviour] A Google Chrome extension

Fri Feb 26 19:25:31 CET 2016

Hi pall
It makes sense. Will have a go at it.
Thanks for all your help!
Dave
On 26 Feb 2016 16:29, "Pall Thayer" <pallthay at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's going to be tricky. You'll need to go through word by word,
> checking for matches to the ones that you want to change. If a match is
> found then you want the script to ignore the blank space replacement. If
> the word is not a match then you want to go through each character and
> replace it with an   character. Does that make sense?
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 7:55 AM dave miller <dave.miller.uk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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