https://github.com/sylvainhalle/ccv-tweak

Improvements to the interface of the Canadian Common CV
https://github.com/sylvainhalle/ccv-tweak

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Improvements to the interface of the Canadian Common CV

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sylvainhalle/ccv-tweak
• Owner: sylvainhalle
• License: mpl-2.0
• Created: 2015-02-07T15:38:27.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-02-08T17:20:13.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-22T22:56:39.517Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 152 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Canadian Common CV Tweak

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## What is it?

The Canadian Common CV Tweak is a small script you install in your browser,

and which modifies the layout and text size of the Canadian Common CV's web

site to make it more usable (or rather, usable at all).

[Install the script](https://greasyfork.org/scripts/7940-canadian-common-cv-tweak/code/Canadian%20Common%20CV%20Tweak.user.js)

on Greasy Fork

## Why?

Researchers in Canada must now use the [Canadian Common

CV](https://ccv-cvc.ca/) as a centralized online repository for storing

information about their career (publications, courses taught, funding,

students supervised, etc.). The CV's web interface has been criticized for

its low usability. One major problem is that the usable area in many

sections is confined to a tiny rectangle that cannot be enlarged, no matter

how big is your browser's window:



Most of the time, the information in that rectangle is a table where most

of the lines and most of the columns are not visible without scrolling far

away --it feels like reading a phone book through a pin hole.

The CCV Tweak modifies the layout to make the previous page look like this:



The script works in:

- **Firefox**: install [Greasemonkey](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/greasemonkey) first

- **Chrome**: install [the Tampermonkey extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo) first

- **Opera**: install [Violent Monkey](https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/violent-monkey) or [Tampermonkey](http://addons.opera.com/extensions/details/tampermonkey-beta) first

- **Safari**: install the [NinjaKit](http://ss-o.net/safari/extension/NinjaKit.safariextz) extension first. Make sure that extensions are enabled in the settings, download the file and double click it. Then you can install the script. More information [here](http://wiki.greasespot.net/Cross-browser_userscripting#NinjaKit)

## You're my savior. Who are you?

This script has been written by [Sylvain Hallé](http://leduotang.ca/sylvain),

Associate Professor at [Université du Québec à Chicoutimi](http://www.uqac.ca),

Canada.