[Greasemonkey] Chickenfoot?

[Matt Labrum]

hmm , isn't that exactly like gm but with the alternative scripting?

On 12/18/05, chris feldmann <cfeldmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/17/05, Scott Turner <srt19170 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has this been noted yet?
>
> Well, now it has. Interesting; it's written in java and provides a
> simple scripting language ala applescript:
>
>       [In greasemonkey] the search box would be:
>
>             document.getElementById('p').value = 'my search query';
>
>        However, in Chickenfoot, the equivalent line of code would be:
>
>              enter('search the web', 'my search query');"
>
> I rather like that greasemonkey scripts are written in javascript,
> seeing as how they're accessing the DOM, which is what javascript is
> designed to do. The chickenfoot author(s) make the argument that their
> scripting grammar makes it easy for the average user to write scripts:
>
> "By offering commands such as click(), enter() and pick(), Chickenfoot
> provides users with a higher level of abstraction over their actions
> on a web page, which is more appropriate for an end-user programmer."
>
> But it seems to me that the sorts of people who would be interested in
> learning "click()" are the same sorst of people who would be
> interested in learning document.addEventListener("click", function,
> false);. The ven diagrams overlap extensively. And the latter is more
> granular, more powerful, more useful. Not that this is some sort of
> competition.
>
> Doesn't yet provide the functions of the greasemonkey API:
>
> "To be fair, Greasemonkey also extends JavaScript by providing users
> with its own API. We are considering adding unofficial support for the
> Greasemonkey API so that scripts may be ported to Chickenfoot without
> any rewriting."
>
> But I like the idea of a sidebar "script window." Except I hate sidebars.
>
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