The Vancouver International Film Festival has just started, and once again, the site uses javascript popups for each film detail page. This means that when friends are sending out the list of movies they want to see, they exclude the URLs since the only way to get a permalink to film page is to view source the popup.
So, I wrote a Greasemonkey script: VIFF.org Clean Links that rewrites the javascript popup links to permalinks so that individual films can be bookmarked.
Which means it changes links on all the Film Guide pages from
javascript:phpEventNotePopup('0724')
to
http://viff.org/tixSYS/filmguide/eventnote.php?EventNumber=0724
Installation instructions for Greasemonkey novices:
Run Firefox as your browser.
Install Greasemonkey extension, more detailed instructions are here. Restart Firefox.
Go to the Viff.org Clean Links script page, click "Tools | Install User Script...", click OK to the prompts.
Go to Viff.org - View by Title page, the links to the movies should now open in the same window instead of in a popup.
Two ways to get a clean URL without using Greasemonkey (or something similar), is this:
(1) click on film title, which opens a window without a title-bar containing the VIFF program notes
(2) right-click on "Film Resources", beneath the photo, and choose "Open Link in New Window"
(3) in the new window thus opened, left-click on "Return to Program Note"
Of course you could also just right-click on the program note window, and then select the URL and copy it to the clipboard.