Extension: Imagus
Monday, January 3, 2011 11:17:22 PM
At the moment there is no proper documentation about its features, however further reading this post, taking a look at the preferences of the extension or at the archive may give you an idea what's about.
This site will go down next week. Use this address for sharing: http://tiny.cc/Imagus
In Opera 15+, the extension must be manually enabled in the Extension manager (Ctrl+Shift+E) after install.
Viewer
Replaces the browser's default image viewer to a more customizable version. For instance, it's possible to set the initial sizing mode or disable the resizing totally, it can detect if an image has higher resolution, adds possibility for rotation, options for changing background color or image border, zooming to a selected area or zooming with mouse wheel, and more...Hover zoom
Enlarges thumbnails and linked images (or even linked thumbnails) into a pop-up with just hovering the mouse over them.As well as the Viewer, it's also fairly customizable with some extra features, such as full-zoom which allows you to view the image with original size in the same tab allowing for further zooming. It can load image albums as well.
Tools
This section contains global features or features that have less options.-
Shortcuts
- they can be used both on Viewer and Hover zoom
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Opening images
- many ways for opening images from web pages (e.g., background images)
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Send image to...
- it sends the image address to an online service (e.g., reverse image search, image editor, gif frame extractor...)
New service can be added in preferences (one per line).
Format: "[+]Name|search engine's URL". In the service URL is placed the image address with the %url variable.
Example: TinEye| http://www.tineye.com/search?url=%url
If you put a "+" sign before the name (e.g., "+TinEye"), then it means that the service will be used when the shortcut is used. Multiple entries can be enabled, then all of them will be opened.
Sieve
This is a set of rules which are helping the extension to find the larger images.The rules are based on regular expressions, JavaScript and a bit of HTML.
Gallery
This is something like a bookmark for images. It stores only the image address with a thumbnail, and if possible, then one or two source link. The "Source", which is the address of the page where you've seen the image, and the "Target", which is the address of the link (if it wasn't the same as the zoomed image address).When an image is opened or "hoverzoomed", then pressing the shortcut ( G by default) will add it to the list without any questions. Shift + G will prompt for labels. Deleting images from the list: Ctrl + Right click on the thumbnail cell or Ctrl + Click to select some and the minus button from the button-list. Shift + Right click on a cell to edit the labels.
Grants
At Grants you can tell on which sites can the extension work.For the extension's icon thanks goes to http://esk6a.deviantart.com/
v0.9.8 - February 13, 2013 | Install | Changelog
Read this before updating, it's important!
(this section may not be relevant for those who already installed the extension from the official extension catalogs, like
CWS
or
AMO
, those can skip to the highlights)
As you may or may not know, MyOpera (this blogging platform) is shutting down very soon. Until now the extension was hosted here for all browsers, also its update checking mechanism happened here as well. When the site goes down, there will be no way to notify people about new versions, so the extension has to migrate, specifically to the official extension catalogs (except Safari, see below). Here's what you should do for each browser if you installed the extension from this page instead of the official repositories:
Opera : Install from this address .
Firefox : Review in progress, and you will be updated automatically to that version once it's accepted, also in the future it will be available through AMO . In the meantime, you can freely install the new version from the install links above (or direct link ), since it will already check updates from AMO. So, Fx users can install any version, they'll be fine.
Chrome : It was already available for a while now on the Chrome Web Store . If you haven't installed it from there, now you should!
Safari : Unfortunately the Safari Extensions Gallery does not host extension files, only information about them. Every developer must distribute their files and provide update mechanism from their own server/host, which is a problem, because I don't have one at the moment. But, Safari extensions are signed with a developer certificate, which can be revoked, and when it's done, in theory, the extension will stop working for everyone. So, when I'll find a place to host the extension, then I'll revoke my certificate, in order to break the extension for you, and you'll know that there is an update, so you have to search for "imagus safari" on the web. It's a nice plan, but I'm not sure that it will work, so if it doesn't, then after a few months it will be your job to search for the (yet nonexistent) homepage of this extension, and install it from there.
Until then, you can install the new version from the link above.
Maxthon: Available in Maxthon Extension Center.
A different thing, about rules. If you've added custom rules to your Sieve, then make sure that they're placed before the rule named "dereferers", because this version updates all the rules (and removes the dead ones) starting from the mentioned rule. Why? Because probably most of the people didn't even know that the rules must be updated manually. The plan is still to have an online gallery where you can install whatever you want or have custom lists, but unfortunately that is still far away. And because of this, probably I will keep this behavior; with every new update all the rules will be overwritten starting from the "dereferers" rule. Note that their disabled state will be lost. If you have no idea what was that all about, you don't have to do anything.
v0.9.8 highlights (full changelog )
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HTML5 video/audio support
There are a few services that allow you to upload GIF images, and convert it to a video file, which can be played in your browser. This version allows you to load these video files in the pop-up, also gives possibility to control them (play/pause, volume...) via shortcuts.
Actually, if the video doesn't have sound, then it wouldn't be possible to distinguish it from an animated GIF image, and because of this, every video (and audio) pop-up has a 1px orange (color from the HTML5 logo ) border, which indicates that it is not an image.
Beside this, there are a few features that cannot be used on these media files (at least for now). For example, you can't send them with S , can't store them in the Gallery. Other than these, everything is the same (rotating/flipping, full-zoom, download... all works the same).
You can do the following with video/audio files: play/pause, seek forward/backward (assumes 25fps), show/hide the player controls (every browser uses its own controls, also for audio it's always visible), and adjust the volume (initial value 30%) or the playback rate.
The list of shortcuts can be found under Preferences / Hover zoom at bottom (also, previously hidden shortcuts for albums are listed now).
I've added support for only two sites that provide these kind of media files (and GIF conversion).
One service is gfycat where short, looped, soundless videos (plus their animated GIF counterparts) are hosted.
(I assume that you have already updated the extension, and refreshed the page at this point in order to test the followings)
Here's an example , or on reddit you can find a bunch of others.
Another service is MediaCrush , which does a similar job converting images to videos, but it is rather a general file hosting service with support for many file formats (or albums of these).
Some random picks from here :
video example with sound - images and soundless videos mixed in an album - only soundless videos - an album of audio files
Side-note: Opera 12 users must disable the "Use Spdy2" option in opera:config (uncheck and save), because its spdy implementation is buggy/incomplete, and you won't be able to load videos from MediaCrush if it's enabled.
In case of both sites the extension prefers the video version over GIF images, which means that even if a link points to the GIF file, the extension will load the video.
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As requested a few times in the comments, this version (if Hz is deactivated by default) allows showing the pop-up on key/button press if the cursor is already over the link/thumbnail, instead of holding the key first.
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In some browsers/operating systems the context menu appears right after the mouse button is pressed, instead when the button is released. This made unusable the activation of full-zoom with right long-press (Z or Enter were still functional). For those (or who prefers this anyway) there is an option for activating full-zoom with simple right click (without holding it for a while).
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The content of the pop-up can be saved with Ctrl+S. Doesn't work in Presto based Opera, but there Ctrl+Click can be used as before, which is hardly requires more effort than pressing the shortcut.
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The extension now supports older browser versions (if someone prefers them): Opera 11.10+, Firefox 4+, SeaMonkey 2.1+ (even Thunderbird 3.3+, where it's pretty useless, but making it compatible was effortless), Chrome 7+, Maxthon 3.5+.
- Plus read the changelog , maybe you'll find something that is more like a highlight for you.
For Mac OS/OS X users, it was known that v0.9.7 doesn't work in Firefox. I couldn't test it, but I made some changes that I thought might help. So, if you use Firefox on the mentioned operating system, maybe you could test it and tell me in the comments if it works or not.
Comments
Unregistered user # Friday, March 4, 2011 6:26:34 AM
Deathamns # Friday, March 4, 2011 9:55:09 PM
Unregistered user # Tuesday, March 8, 2011 3:14:59 AM
Unregistered user # Sunday, April 24, 2011 1:09:21 PM
DoTheEvolution TheEvolutionBaby # Sunday, April 24, 2011 2:09:11 PM
Deathamns # Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:07:14 AM
Originally posted by anonymous:
Unfortunately (for you), I have to break that, because of panning or any other feature, which uses mouse events. It can be a solution to make an option that will allow to drag the image along with a control key (e.g. Alt), but Opera has troubles with mousedown event (actually this breaks the drag'n'drop, even if I don't want to), so, until they fix this problem (because I believe that it is a bug, since it is handled correctly by other browsers), I cannot do anything.metude # Wednesday, May 11, 2011 5:32:01 AM
Deathamns # Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:36:37 PM
Maybe someday I will publish it, but I won't hurry, since there is still a lot work to do with it (and not much free time).
DoTheEvolution TheEvolutionBaby # Monday, May 23, 2011 11:45:49 PM
I really liked it. Can you please give option for it?
Deathamns # Tuesday, May 24, 2011 6:41:32 AM
But yeah, an option for that wouldn't be bad.
DoTheEvolution TheEvolutionBaby # Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:36:59 PM
Anyway, for me it always saved with the original names of files, no modifications to them, though I save images with ctrl+left mouse click; if that play some role in it...
just wanned to let you know what I know, or better yet what I don't know...
Deathamns # Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:03:33 AM
The problem is that not everyone uses the last two method (sometimes I don't too), that's why I removed it.
But I made a solution for this (since it was easy to implement). Re-download the extension, and on preferences page you can find an entry called "Image informations", I've added a few samples, but you can freely customize what you want to see in title or status bar (brief instructions above).
DoTheEvolution TheEvolutionBaby # Thursday, May 26, 2011 2:13:32 AM
DoTheEvolution TheEvolutionBaby # Monday, May 30, 2011 4:01:58 AM
I started to enjoy the Hover zoom. One request.
I often visit http://www.reddit.com When people post pictures there, they 99.99% of a time use imgur.com
good example is this subreddit : http://www.reddit.com/r/pics
Now whats the problem is that they sometime don't link directly to the picture, but rather to an imgur page with the picture
example:
http://imgur.com/CxtNi
vs
http://i.imgur.com/CxtNi.png
Can you make some rule that will check direct link so that both these links work with hover zoom?
Problem not only is the unknown extension(if that is a problem) but also possibility of imgur album like this one http://imgur.com/a/xYseV
But albums not working is just fine anyway, only if it screw with other functions or whole extension or something...
Also maybe adding option where user can add sites where hover zoom is not suppose to work
Deathamns # Monday, May 30, 2011 1:50:42 PM
By the way, I decided to use imgur (anonymous) API instead of resolving image URL from the picture's page, but the API has limitations. It allows only 500 fetches in an hour from the same IP address (but it should be enough), and I didn't add support for albums, because it's not clear which one from the list you want to see.
Originally posted by TheEvolutionBaby:
Not a bad suggestion, but I haven't even implemented my own ideas yet, and I'm kind of busy right now, so at least a month there won't be any new feature.DoTheEvolution TheEvolutionBaby # Tuesday, May 31, 2011 3:05:29 PM
Shin Ryujin EpiKnightz # Sunday, June 26, 2011 10:37:30 AM
Just one suggestion, can you enable an option to "curve" the corner of the image hover zoom border (the transparent thing around the enlarge image) please? (turn it from a rectangle into a rounded rectangle) That would be beautiful!
(sorry for my poor english )
Deathamns # Sunday, June 26, 2011 10:43:43 AM
Originally posted by EpiKnightz:
At preferences page under Hover zoom / Style change the Border value to:DoTheEvolution TheEvolutionBaby # Sunday, June 26, 2011 10:21:16 PM
left click is not cycling through first two modes.
Deathamns # Sunday, June 26, 2011 11:50:17 PM
If not, then need more information: which image, other enabled extensions... or anything on which I can start.
DoTheEvolution TheEvolutionBaby # Monday, June 27, 2011 10:44:34 AM
This adblock script is the culprit that was in conflict..
Its funny, I always try to test only single userjavascript when something is not working properly, with extensions it didn't pop in to my mind...
Deathamns # Monday, June 27, 2011 1:22:07 PM
DoTheEvolution TheEvolutionBaby # Tuesday, July 12, 2011 2:29:33 AM
At least for me.
Here you can test it on the second image, in the third row.
Here's how it looks for me, the green border I pasted at original size.
This time I disables javascripts before complaining ^^
Deathamns # Tuesday, July 12, 2011 6:52:07 AM
But, yeah, your popup seems smaller as it should be.
DoTheEvolution TheEvolutionBaby # Tuesday, July 12, 2011 1:09:23 PM
Are you planing on sharing older versions as it goes? So that we can revert from newer to older if some problem occur...
Deathamns # Tuesday, July 12, 2011 2:42:26 PM
Unregistered user # Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:16:39 AM
Deathamns # Thursday, July 14, 2011 9:45:03 AM
Rich Tibbett richtr # Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:31:09 AM
abbrbbq # Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:35:13 AM
Unregistered user # Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:41:51 PM
Deathamns # Thursday, July 14, 2011 1:28:59 PM
Originally posted by richtr:
Not in the near future, still didn't implemented the features that I imagined, and there are many issues that I have to solve.
But there is nothing to worry about. If you don't believe me, check the source code of the extension or ask someone who knows how to...
Originally posted by abbrbbq:
You can try this:
Open Opera's error console (Ctrl+Shift+O), clear it if already has entries, go to the preferences page and press Save. If the console gives some errors, then send them to me (click on a message, Ctrl+A to select all, and Ctrl+C to copy).
Unregistered user # Thursday, July 14, 2011 2:47:09 PM
mubaidr # Thursday, July 14, 2011 2:53:39 PM
1-Cannot save preferences here too. thats why i cannot enable hover zoom
2-Add option to disable Image resizing (use default opera's behaviour) since i would like to use it mainly for hover zoom.
Unregistered user # Thursday, July 14, 2011 3:00:22 PM
Deathamns # Thursday, July 14, 2011 6:10:22 PM
Originally posted by anonymous:
Rotation is still experimental feature...Originally posted by mubaidr:
1- It's enabled by default. Can you do me the same I asked at the end of this comment ?2- There is already option for that. "Default mode" under Image resizing
Originally posted by anonymous:
1) Maybe fixed.2) Typo fixed. I know about wrong centering, but don't know the source of the problem yet (but at the moment it's working for me).
3) Fixed.
Re-download and try.
mubaidr # Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:36:47 PM
Originally posted by Deathamns:
I did what u said but nothing happens, no errors, but hover zoom does not work. I even tried setting to,
Enabled when holding nothing. but it wont work and nor it save changes
Deathamns # Friday, July 15, 2011 8:29:49 AM
And you have to set "Disable when holding nothing" on preferences page to enable hover zoom (opposite logic).
Unregistered user # Friday, July 15, 2011 8:47:46 AM
Unregistered user # Friday, July 15, 2011 9:02:28 AM
Deathamns # Friday, July 15, 2011 9:11:26 AM
Originally posted by anonymous:
Barely enough information, please be more specific.Florin Iacob Mastema # Friday, July 15, 2011 9:31:05 AM
Unregistered user # Friday, July 15, 2011 10:15:14 AM
Unregistered user # Friday, July 15, 2011 10:16:54 AM
Mağruf Çolakoğlu ZAHEK # Friday, July 15, 2011 10:20:20 AM
Emoryy # Friday, July 15, 2011 10:35:37 AM
Option is set to middle-center by default.
But:
When an image is small, it is displayed top-center.
When big, on the left.
After clicking on it to zoom, and again to zoom out, image displayed in the right position.
+Could we have animation effect while zooming too?
Unregistered user # Friday, July 15, 2011 10:42:58 AM
Deathamns # Friday, July 15, 2011 11:29:01 AM
Originally posted by Mastema:
Can you give me a screenshot and a direct link, because I didn't find any "unclickable comments".Originally posted by anonymous:
I'm already using CSS transformations, but the rotation issue isn't my main priority.Originally posted by Emoryy:
I know what is the problem, but I haven't found a good solution yet.About the animation... maybe, but not so soon.
Unregistered user # Friday, July 15, 2011 12:12:43 PM
Deathamns # Friday, July 15, 2011 12:42:24 PM