RedBubble finally added this facility to their site on 2009-05-12. As such, this hack is no longer necessary.
A minor annoyance on RedBubble is the fact that you can't get to the edit screen of one of your works from the public view of a work. If you see a problem with the public view of a work you've either got to navigate to the edit screen for it (which can be a lot of clicking abut in your browser) or you need to edit the URL for the work in the URL bar of your browser. Either way it's a lot of faffing about.
Myself and Tim Haynes knocked up one solution to the problem in response to this thread in the RedBubble forums. The nice thing about that solution is that it should work for most modern browsers.
Initially, however, I'd thought about doing it as a Greasemonkey script. While this does have the downside of only being useful to people using Firefox (that's a downside?), it does have the elegance edge in that it would place the edit facility in the page itself. Given that I've never written a Greasemonkey script before, and given that I fancied a go, I knocked one up.
If you're a Firefox user, and you've installed Greasemonkey, and you're a RedBubble user, then install this:
After you've installed it you should find that "Edit this" appears as an option in the list of actions that can be performed from the public view of art, clothing, journals and writing on RedBubble. It should look something like this:
This RedBubble hack is brought to you by Dave Pearson and PigleT.
Please note: This isn't associated with RedBubble. RedBubble don't endorse this, there's no connection. It's just a hack to make life a little easier.
