Arena - blog

When I do image searches with AllTheWeb, the status field displays a long url starting with http://av.rds.yahoo.com/ when I hover over the thumbnails and links. There's no way to see where the link will eventually lead to, even though the links all have an onmouseover attribute like this: "self.status='http://www.blezer.tmfweb.nl/trip2';return true".
I guess that Opera ignores that status text for security reasons, but as I said, it makes it impossible to know where you'll end up. I've written some UserJS (and looked at GwenWyvern's Google Image frame bypasser for an example) to fix this:

if (window.location.href.match(/http:\/\/www.alltheweb.com\/search.+cat=img/)) {
  window.opera.addEventListener(
    'AfterEventListener.load',
    function(){var s=document.getElementsByTagName('a');for (var i=0; i<s.length; i++){if (s[i[b][/b]].className=='thumbnail'){s[i[b][/b]].href=s[i[b][/b]].getAttribute('onmouseover').replace(/self\.status='(.+)';return true/,'$1');}}}, 
    false); 
}