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Homestar Runner
Description
All right, maggot! Fall it out!
Do you has
what it takes to join the Homestarmy?
The guts? The determination? The five bucks?
Well, do you, stupid?
Keep up-to-date with new Toons and Strong Bad Emails posted on HomestarRunner.com - checks every hour.
Double-click to open and close the display.
The Homestar icon will open its mouth in amazement when a new toon appears on the site, toons will be clearly flagged as 'new'.
Sincerely Yours,
Dripping Yellow Madness.
Plans for future versions:
Random selection
Weekly Fanstuff, Sketchbook and Quote of the Week
Play the Flash files directly in the widget
Latest updates to the store?
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Comments (10 on the original page, latest shown)
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Works with Opera 9 to Opera 12.
About this widget
| Downloads | 34,388 |
|---|---|
| Category | Fun and Games |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Size | 146KB |
| Last update | February 25, 2007 |
| Devices | desktop |
| Original page | Internet Archive |
Well, Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man? It works! Sorry for sounding surprised, but since the Brothers Chaps only release new toons around once a week, it makes it a little hard to test with real data! Especially since I just threw this together over the weekend.
How about keeping the emails seperate from the toons? It would make things a bit easier. Also, I would ask if you have permission to make this too. Just so things don't get too out of hand, and possibly to get some star time on the HR homepage.
not worth downloadin.Don't waste your time.
Any particular reason why? Maybe I can improve it.
How does it work?
, Briefly, there's a file called rando.xml published on homestarrunner.com which contains titles and links to all the toons on the site. This is used by the 'random play' feature on the site. Unfortunately, it's not really a valid XML file, so I have to treat it as plain text and parse it line-by-line. Some categories are listed in date order, some are reversed, so I have to compensate for that. For all I know they could change the data format tomorrow and the widget would stop working, but it seems okay for now. I also have to track which toons have been seen, and which ones have been added since the widget was first loaded.
For anyone wondering, the latest toon 'Date Nite' has been uploaded to the site with the wrong URL in the XML file. This means that it doesn't show up as a new Toon (since that URL has already been seen) and the link goes to the wrong place. Once the Brother Chaps fix their file and update the URL, it will show as a new toon as usual.
jashwin you do realise this widget has made it onto the 1st page of the editor's pick so it must be good.
The latest short, "The Next Epi-Snowed" does not work. It links with a 0 instaed of a o. It links to http://www.homestarrunner.com/ccd06.html when it should link to http://www.homestarrunner.com/ccdo6.html. It is probably a problem with their rando.xml file though. Otherwise, this is the best widget ever!
Too bad there's not a whole lot going on at Homestarrunner.com anymore.