[Greasemonkey] Turnabout: More Greasemonkey for IE

[Mark Pilgrim]

On 5/31/05, Matt McCarthy <dnl2ba at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Cross-browser scripts
>  What would it take to mobilize script developers to update their scripts to
> be cross-browser?  Even though there've been other IE user script plugins,
> not many developers are writing cross-browser scripts today-- maybe for lack
> of a testing environment that works well enough.  My friend and I have
> looked at some GM scripts, and the most common cross-browser snafus are:

One really really nice feature for an IE-based user script engine
would be to bundle Dean Edwards' IE7 compatibility layer and make its
functionality available to user scripts.  I don't know how you would
do this without also making it available to server-originated scripts
(i.e. I don't know if it has an "unload all" function), and I don't
know if it would cause compatibility problems with various
browser/feature-sniffing scripts that expect IE to work a certain way.
 But it would go a long way towards making IE support the full set of
DOM methods, which would be helpful since it could eliminate things
like if isIE ? document.all : document.getElementsByTagName('*")...

http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/

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Cheers,
-Mark