[Greasemonkey] Greasemonkey covered by IBM patent?

[Simon Willison]

On 2 Jun 2005, at 21:48, Justin Mason wrote:
>   altering the formatting information to modify at least one display
>   characteristic of the Web document; and
>
>   passing the Web document to the browser for display.

In that case, Greasemonkey's fine. It doesn't "alter the formatting  
information" before passing the document to the browser - instead, it  
waits until the browser has displayed the document and /then/ applies  
changes to it.

I'm sure there's a tone of prior art for this in any case - HTTP  
proxies are practically /designed/ to modify content on its way to  
the browser. Then again, cookies were practically designed to allow  
for one-click shopping and it didn't stop Amazon.