GreaseMonkey script: vertical split for Gmane 'news' interface.

gmanevert.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Gmane vertical frames
// @namespace   [email protected]
// @include     http://news.gmane.org/*
// @include     http://thread.gmane.org/*
// @version     1
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==

// The default GMane 'news' view has horizontal panes which wastes lots of screen space;
// with this script the split will be vertical.

var framesets = document.getElementsByTagName('frameset');
if (framesets.length == 1) {
    var frameset = framesets[0];
    frameset.cols = '*';
    frameset.rows = '*,28';

    // add an inner frameset so that the bottom navigation bar is split horizontally
    var newframeset = document.createElement('frameset')
    var nav = document.getElementsByName('navigation')[0];
    var threads = document.getElementsByName('threads')[0];
    var article = document.getElementsByName('article')[0];
    frameset.removeChild(threads);
    frameset.removeChild(article);
    newframeset.cols = '60%,40%';
    newframeset.appendChild(threads);
    newframeset.appendChild(article);
    frameset.insertBefore(newframeset, nav);
}

var tags = document.getElementsByClassName('fixed');
if (tags.length > 0) {
    var fixed = tags[0];
    fixed.style.top = '10px';
    fixed.style.left = '10px';
    fixed.style.right = '';
    fixed.style.height = '10%';
    fixed.style.width = '40%';
}