User talk:Cryptic/smiley.js
User:Cryptic/smiley.js is an odious little script that replaces various ascii smilies with images from the Commons.
Installation[edit]
Copy the contents of User:Cryptic/smiley.js into your user js file. This will be in one of the following locations depending on the skin you're using:
- amethyst.js
- chick.js
- cologneblue.js
- monobook.js
- myskin.js
- nostalgia.js
- simple.js
- standard.js (classic)
Smilies replaced[edit]
=) :) :-) =):D :-D =D
:( :-( =(
;) ;-) ;D ;-D
:p :-p :P :-P =p =P
:'( :'-(
8) 8-) 8D 8-D
How to add more[edit]
Each line in the smiley array at the start of the script consists of an array containing the following elements:
- A regular expression for the text to be replaced. Note that backslashes ("
\") need to be doubled. - The image name.
- The subdirectory where the image is stored. For example, if the image is at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Smile.png, this should be "
2/26". - The image width.
- The image height.
Deficiencies[edit]
- The images are linked in a specific place (e.g. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Smile.png instead of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Smile.png). I don't see how this can be fixed.
- The images aren't clickable on like the normal [[Image:...]] syntax. This is due to laziness on my part.
- They're replaced everywhere, including on pages not in the Wikipedia: or *Talk: namespaces, within <pre> blocks, and in links like =). (They aren't replaced if they're immediately preceded or followed by a letter or number, like in "Template:Pt", though.) This is also due to laziness on my part.
- It's slow. (You guessed it, laziness again.)