On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Joshua Thorp <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is the stunt?
>
> Is it just suppressing the warning message?
>
> --joshua
>
Minimalist is a chrome extensions that uses a mix of css, javascript and
html to change the looks of a page. It is keyed on a regex on the page
URL, so only works on specific pages, not all of them.
It started as a specific Gmail and Greader extension, but then the author
discovered it was fairly easily generalized.
Its main use is "hiding" things from the target page. My Gmail page, for
example is quite highly simplified.
In the case of the annoying phishing warnings, I added a custom css
fragment via Minimalist's "add module" facility. The fragment was simply:
.ac7, .ac9 {
display: none;
}
.. which simply removes the two css classes ac7 and ac9 which are the divs
for the phishing warnings. I found these by using the browser developer
tools that highlight parts of a page when you hover over its html fragment
in the developer's console.
The main downside is that 1) the new generalized Minimalist is in beta ..
but seems fine, 2) pages change and Google in particular is trying to
migrate slowly to a common look, with G+ leading the way .. and meaning
your changes may have to change over time.
Admittedly this is a bit extreme, but I've been fascinated with Minimalist
and wondered if it could handle our small annoyance, and surprise! .. it
could.
-- Owen
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