Using Greasemonkey To Fix Other’s Bugs
Ever since I got into Macromedia Flex I have not been able to view .mxml applications in any Mozilla based browser on Linux. Mozilla for some reason cuts off the Flash at around 240 pixels in width. I have searched the web and Mozilla’s Bugzilla trying to find others who have also experienced this problem. I haven’t found much. A few Mozilla bugs seem to indicate others had this same problem. But not enough for anyone at Mozilla or even Macromedia to care. There has only been 1 post about this issue on the flexcoders Yahoo list. So not really a big deal, except to those of us on Linux!
It seems that the problem is with percentage width embedded objects inside percentage width tables. When writing mxml applications I can easily work around the issue by not using a table. However, anytime I view someone else’s application who has not worked around this bug, I only see the left 240 pixels of the application. I could try to file a bug with Mozilla, but I think that’s been done and didn’t get the issue resolved. Greasemonkey to the rescue!
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets me easily manipulate web pages when they are loaded in my browser. So I wrote a simple Greasemonkey script which fixes the problem! Fo those interested, here is what you need to do…
Install my user script from: http://www.cayambe.com/fix_embed_percentage_bug.user.js
Go to: http://flexapps.macromedia.com/flex15/explorer/explorer.mxml
or any other Flex application and you should see the full application!
My script is just a hack. If you have any ideas for improving it, please let me know!