Butler preview

I have heard that Illytools interferes with Butler if Butler is run first.  To work around that, you can install Butler using the "bookmarklet" option and the click the bookmark after Illytools has started.

No, Thorsson, Butler's alive and well, as is the site hosting it.

It's been a while since I've posted, so I thought I'd necro the thread with news on how this project is doing.  A lot of the big plans are on hold as a new job has my attention pretty well monopolized, but Butler is still doing well.  UIv3 was supported within 12 hours of its release, and the script has continued to accumulate a number of small features.  The newest features as of the current version (0.5.1) include:

• UIv3's new friends list is now automatically kept sorted (first by online status then by name)
• The entire interface is now forced to use Arial for better readability (UIv3, interested in feedback, and though it's difficult in this case, willing to make it optional if enough people want the stock font with Butler badly enough)
• Butler's player context menus now include the "Add Friend" option
• Butler's chat history is now automatically pruned for better long-term performance
  

Other less recent features include:

• Trade buy and sell forms are moved to the top of the page just under the market trends chart
• Gratuitous use of text drop shadows removed for improved readability (UIv3)
  
• Player medals are now (optionally) shown in Butler's chatlogs.
• Custom unit tooltips provide clearer overview and simple analytics
• Butler's control panel can now be (optionally) opened automatically on hover

If you haven't heard of Butler before, I encourage you to visit its tool page on Arcanum Illyria and give it a try.

http://arcanum-illyria.com/wiki/Tool:Butler

Just installed the new version and: 

It turns out some very naughty library was polluting the Array prototype with enumerable properties.  This creates a cascading sequence of problems which, if properly solved, turn simple, elegant, and generalized code (i.e. straightforward usage of basic language constructs accepting any kind of input) into a vomit-pool of checks for edge-case conditions, js-engine-specific hacks to identify stuff that shouldn't have to be handled differently in the first place, branches into multiple code paths based on that ident...  This kind of defensive programming renders your code impervious to problems caused by other developers' practices, but any semblance of code readability or simple abstract structure along with it.

I don't do proper.  I do sensible.

I have a fix in the dev version now--I just re-created any new Array properties (methods) as appropriately non-enumerable, and mountains of broken code that handles arrays or objects (the latter potentially having extended stuff we want to enumerate) magically resumed proper function.  Other browsers did not break because they already had the method defined natively.

Players can grab the new version any time, and I'll do a proper release tomorrow as it's rather late now.

I KNEW IT! THE BUTLER DID IT!