After I read about Hover Zoom being evil (yikes!), two articles made me instantly switch to another one, called Imagus:
- Hoverzoom’s Malware controversy, and Imagus alternative - ghacks.net
- Imagus is a Hover Zoom Replacement to Enlarge Images on Mouseover - LifeHacker
Imagus seems to fit the bill by doing pretty much what Hover Zoom also could, but in addition, it seems to support custom filters (to support more sites), in addition to the huge bunch it already comes packed with.
In the options page, on Chrome, the filters section looks deliciously hackable:
However, at the same time, it seems to be written in what I would call Perl Javascript.
I consider myself well-versed in Javascript, DOM and Regex, but it's just painful to try to guess what that is doing, so I looked for documentation. It seems like there was an MyOpera blog, and now the website of the project is, for the time being, hosted on Google Docs.
The page doesn't mention anything about how to develop "filters" (or "sieves", as written in that page?)
So, how can I develop a custom filter? I'm not aware of all the possibilities (it seems to be pretty flexible), but even a simple example like just modifying URLs would be good. (turning /thumb/123.jpg
into /large/123.jpg
or something).
Or even just an explanation of the fields. They seem to be:
link
url
res
img
to
note
<- Probably Comment