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
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:
Smilies replaced
=) :) :-) =) Image:Smile.png
:D :-D =D Image:Teeth.png
:( :-( =( Image:Sad.png
;) ;-) ;D ;-D Image:Smile_eye.png
:p :-p :P :-P =p =P Image:Tongue.png
:'( :'-( Image:Cry.png
8) 8-) 8D 8-D Image:Shade.png
How to add more
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
- 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
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.)