And my web browser of choice is Safari 3.0 for Leopard. Unfortunately this makes viewing TIFF images of the Patent Office’s website an absolutely abysmal experience.

So today in CS421 I found GreaseKit, a Safari Plugin that allows one to run Greasemonkey-like scripts on web pages in Safari. So I wrote a userscript: usptofix.user.js to change the <embed> tag to the <img> tag, resulting in success.

(original left, modified right)

I simply scale the TIFF to the page width, and everything is okay.

Unfortunately, it crashes Safari half of the time I load this page; I’ve reported a bug against GreaseKit.

It is probably better to just use Google Patents, but at least I learned something.