Perlmonks Navigator

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Description:	First, while this is useful and Perlmonks related, it isn't Perl. It is JavaScript. d/l the code, and save the two pieces marked with ##filename=foo.html## as what the name is supposed to be. Be sure cookies and JavaScript are on. Then point your browser at perlmonks.html, and try it out. With this, this morning I was able to walk through every post for several days worth of PerlMonks in just a few hours. Most of that time was spent writing up responses. With this I can follow the whole site with less energy than it would take to hit a reasonable portion of it through using Newest Nodes. Update Clearly my cookie handling in JavaScript sucks. Oh well, I don't like either cookies or JavaScript, so I guess that was my internal bias showing. :-) Now fixed.
##filename=perlmonks.html## <html> <head> <title>Perlmonks Navigator</title> </head> <frameset cols='10%,90%'> <frame name='control' src='nav.html' scrolling='yes'> <frame name='perlmonks' src='http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=26179' scrolling= +'yes'> </frameset> </html> ##filename=nav.html## <html> <head> <title>Perlmonks Navigation Sidebar</title> </head> <body> <form name="nav_control"> <input type="button" value="prev" onClick="move(-1)"><br> <input type="button" value="next" onClick="move(1)"><p> <input type="text" size="8" name="article_no"><br> <input type="button" value="jump" onClick="move_to(document.nav_c +ontrol.article_no.value)"><p> <input type="button" value="cookie" onClick="alert(document.cooki +e)"> </form> <script> var cookie_index = "pm_index"; function get_next_year () { var year = new Date(); year.setFullYear(year.getFullYear() + 1); return year; } // Takes the encoded name of the attrib, returns the decoded valu +e function get_cookie_attrib (name) { var stored_as = unescape(name) + "="; var pieces = document.cookie.split(/; /); for (my_index in document.cookie.split("")) { var piece = pieces[my_index]; if (null == piece) continue; if (0 == piece.indexOf(stored_as)) { var escaped_val = piece.substr(stored_as.length); return unescape(escaped_val); } } return null; } // Gets the current pos or "tilly"'s home node function get_cur_pos () { // Don't forget that this should be a number. var cur_pos = get_cookie_attrib(cookie_index) - 0; return (0 == cur_pos ? 26179 : cur_pos); } // Move forward or back function move (count) { move_to(get_cur_pos() + count); } // Takes an index, moves there. function move_to (pos) { set_cookie_attrib(cookie_index, pos); document.nav_control.article_no.value = pos; parent.perlmonks.location.href = "http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=" + pos; } // Takes a name/value, encodes and stores them in the cookie function set_cookie_attrib (name, value) { // This does not disturb other attributes. Why? // Just another stupid JavaScript interface decision. :-( var cookie_str = escape(name) + "=" + escape(value); cookie_str += ";expires= " + get_next_year().toGMTString(); document.cookie = cookie_str; } // Default location move_to(get_cur_pos()); </script> </body> </html>

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