[Greasemonkey] Cannot use GreaseMonkey :-(

[XIU]

You do know that when a page has a rss feed you see a little icon in
your status bar which allows you to subscribe to that feed?

It's called Live Bookmarks in Firefox and you can find more
information here:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/live-bookmarks

On 6/4/05, Simon Willison <cs1spw at bath.ac.uk> wrote:
> It strikes me that the usability involved with Greasemonkey are very
> similar to the ones involved with RSS feeds - it's counter-intuitive
> to have to be looking at a page full of meaningless code (meaningless
> unless you know JavaScript) in order to install it.
> 
> The RSS/Atom/etc community are still looking for a solution to this
> three years on - so far the best I've seen is Safari 2.0 and OS X
> Tiger, where you can set your default RSS reader and then clicking on
> the blue RSS logo in Safari will subscribe you in it. I think they
> did that with a custom feed:// URL scheme.
> 
> Would a custom mime type for user scripts work? The reason feed:// is
> needed in feed syndication is that the application to which the feed
> is passed needs to know it's URL - otherwise a mime type would work
> fine. Of course, the problem with custom mime types is that they
> require server administrators to configure them, which can be
> difficult to impossible for people on shared hosting plans.
> The .user.js thing works well as a fallback in that case though.
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