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 on Greasy Fork
Researchers in Canada must now use the Canadian Common CV 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 first
- Chrome: install the Tampermonkey extension first
- Opera: install Violent Monkey or Tampermonkey first
- Safari: install the NinjaKit 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
This script has been written by Sylvain Hallé, Associate Professor at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada.