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Githtml - View Html Files from Github Repos On The Fly

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Shouldn't it be called Githubhtml?

I mean, it has virtually nothing to do with git.

This has a really big security flaw, if the creator wanted to be mischievous he could change his js file to do things to your logged in github account, for example set your privet repositories public.

If you want to use it you should fork it and change to bookmarklet to use your fork of the js file.

Though I'd never do such a thing, your point is completely valid.

And I would always lean to the side of trust in people, I wouldn't expect you or most people here to abuse it.

Its a little bit of a pet hate, the suggested linking to JavaScript files in another persons repository. The worst was the HTML5 Shim, for a long time they suggested linking directly to their svn repo, fortunately they don't now. It was about the same time people started thinking about using the google cdn for javascript libraries and so people just did it thinking they were helping their page load times when in fact they were compromising the security of their users and themselves.

Just thinking about this, what's needed is some kind of trusted public cdn that you can send files to but cannot change so that library writers can point towards a cdn hosted version of the library without running one themselves and removing security vulnerability.

Or a hash attribute to file and script tags. Of course, either case would mean redment wouldn't be able to update it.

Using Google CDN places no more trust in Google than using Google Analytics or AdSense. Unless your site handled sensitive data or is mission critical, I believe it's reasonable to trust Google not to do anything malicious.

It's worth noting that the same issue exists with Chrome extensions. I wonder how strong a Google password the authors of popular Chrome extensions have.

A few months back I created a bookmarklet to render the html when looking at the raw html page -- https://gist.github.com/1831405

I've ended up using this bookmarklet on a lot of non-github.com sites too.

For instance, you can see how it renders http://c.sente.cc/hcVg/xkcd.txt here: http://i.imgur.com/DNVqd.png

here's the code in snippet form:

  javascript:function write_window(content) {top.consoleRef=window.open(%27%27,%27git-r-done%27,+%27,menubar=1%27+%27,toolbar=1%27+%27,status=1%27+%27,scrollbars=1%27+%27,resizable=1%27);top.consoleRef.document.writeln(content);top.consoleRef.document.close();}function dostuff() {$.ajax({url: document.location.href,dataType:%27html%27,success: function(content){setTimeout(function(){write_window(content)},500);}});}function add_jquery(attempt) {var jq=document.createElement(%27script%27);jq.type=%27text/javascript%27;jq.async=false;jq.src=%27https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js%27;var s=document.getElementsByTagName(%27script%27)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(jq,s);try{var foo=$(%27*%27);dostuff();}catch(err){if(attempt < 5){attempt = attempt + 1;setTimeout("add_jquery("+attempt+")",1000)}else{alert(%27could not load jquery..try again!%27);}}}add_jquery(0);

This seems like a lot of code... Here's what I use:

    javascript:void(document.body.innerHTML = document.getElementsByTagName("pre")[0].innerHTML.replace(/&amp;/g,"&").replace(/&lt;/g,"<").replace(/&gt;/g,">").replace(/&nbsp;/g," "));

(Note: I've only tested this on Chrome.)

Most of the code is for mapping css and js files to the relative raw pages.

Try your code on this page: https://raw.github.com/mrdoob/three.js/46c0a8434d3f269741a88...

And compare it with githtml on the /blob/ version of the same page: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/blob/master/examples/canv...

CSS works fine. (Try this one: https://raw.github.com/twitter/bootstrap/master/docs/index.h...)

I suspect that JS that didn't depend on the page-load to trigger it would work too. I had never considered looking at JS-enabled pages though. When I wrote my bookmarklet, I just needed to view static documentation.

Edit: I found a page with only on-click JS events, and they didn't work. Oh well...

Fixed now.

This is great!,

There has ben more than a few times that I've wished to be able to do this while browsing trough random github repos, kudos to the developer, this looks very handy!

This would be awesome as a webapp. I have to demo pages to non technical people, so the bookmarklet/snippet is a non-starter.

I have been working on this and I decided to finish / publish it today.

Here it is : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4200790 https://github.com/jbourassa/mirrorin

Pretty cool. Can't wait until someone converts this to an extension.

I'm working on that right now. Both for Chrome and FF.

Cool. How do you plan on releasing it? Through the repo?

the rendered pages are not very accurate, they seem deformed.

Edit: I'm working on a fix for this. I see the bootstrap page is deformed.

Nifty!

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