54 items tagged “greasemonkey”
2005
Dive Into Greasemonkey. If you’re not in to Greasemonkey yet, now you have no excuse.
Greasemonkey for personalized accessibility. Why Greasemonkey is the perfect tool for client-side accessibility enhancements.
random.org (via) True random numbers, with entropy provided by a radio tuned to white noise.
Take Control with User JavaScript. Opera’s user scripts feature compatibility with Greasemonkey!
Goodbye to GreasemonkIE (via) A sad death to a promising project.
Greasemonkey FUD
Wow, that didn’t take long. Via the Greasemonkey mailing list, Forrester Research have released a report entitled Greasemonkey Primes Firefox For Embarrassment. I have no intention of paying the $49 asking price for the full 3 page report (!), but here’s the executive summary:
[... 283 words]Mozilla XPath Documentation. This is extremely useful for writing Greasemonkey user scripts.
Check Range user script. The bookmarklet master dips his toes in to Greasemonkey.
Why Greasemonkey is good for publishers (via) Free usability tips and bug fixing—your users know more than you do.
Greasemonkey etiquette
In Meme tracking with Greasemonkey, Jon Udell introduces a userscript which grabs the number of references from del.icio.us and bloglines and appends that information to the top of every page you visit. To be fair on Jon, the version he has released defaults to only doing this for pages on Infoworld.com but modifying it to run on every web page is trivial.
[... 252 words]Flickr without the Flash
One of my favourite panels at SxSW this year was the Flash vs. HTML Game Show, in which a team of HTML/JavaScript gurus took on a team of Flash gurus showing off pre-prepared solutions to tasks set for the panel. One of the challenges was to come up with enhancements to Flickr using the team’s assigned technology.
[... 353 words]Content, services, and the yin-yang of intermediation (via) Jon Udell combines LibraryLookup and Greasemonkey in his latest screencast.
Patterns of Intermediation. Design patterns for bookmarklets, greasemonkey and similar.
amazon2melvyl. Greasemonkey script that embeds icons in data: URIs—kudos to Phil Ringnalda for that idea.
Mark Pilgrim goes both ways. Fighting greasemonkey scripts.
Greasemonkey for Internet Explorer. Requires the .NET framework—still has some way to go.
Greasemonkey as a lightweight intermediary
In The architecture of intermediation, Jon Udell discusses the need for a mechanism for a high-level tool for adding custom features to web applications. In Jon’s case, he wants to add a private bookmarks feature to del.icio.us. Jon thought about using a web proxy to intercept and modify del.icio.us pages, but ruled it out as too low-level.
[... 354 words]Greaseblog (via) The weblog about greasemonkey
Fixing Paul Graham’s Footnotes
I’m a big fan of Paul Graham’s essays, the latest of which is How to Start a Startup. There’s just one niggling problem with them: Paul makes extensive use of footnotes, but provides no way of jumping from the reference in the text to the footnote at the bottom of the page and back up again. Instead, you have to manually down to the bottom of the article and back up again every time you hit a footnote reference.
[... 172 words]Greasemonkey Stole Your Job (and Your Business Model) (via) “It’s so meta” in the comments made me chuckle.
Adding Persistent Searches to Gmail (via) Brilliant greasemonkey hack.
Fixing MSDN with Greasemonkey
Site specific browser customisations have been a a recurring theme on this site over the past six months. Thanks to the ever inventive Aaron Boodman that problem is pretty much solved. Greasemonkey is a plugin for Firefox that lets you create user site customisation scripts (.script.js), easily install them in Firefox and then set which sites they should be run on. Michael Moncur has a handy tutorial on getting started.
Greasemonkey: Hacking the Web with JavaScript. Greasemonkey rocks! Here’s a simple tutorial from Michael Moncur.