[Greasemonkey] a difference in vision

[Nikolas Coukouma]

Matthew Gertner wrote:

>Evan,
>
>Awesome that you are raising this. You make a lot of great points. At the
>same time, I think you are conflating two different issues:
>
>1) The increasing overlap between Greasemonkey and extensions. I mentioned
>this as a problem a while ago and the silence was deafening
>(http://www.mozdev.org/pipermail/greasemonkey/2005-April/001438.html). I
>still believe what I said in that mail, however: in an ideal world, the
>capabilities that GM provides would be inherent in the Mozilla extension
>mechanism, which would have the advantages of Greasemonkey (rapid
>development and deployment, *especially* the fact that you don't have to
>keep restarting Firefox). GM'd get versioning, update and so forth, and
>extensions would get a whole bunch of cool junk too. You can call this
>"creature feep" but to me it's just plain obvi-farking-ous.
>
Note: Firefox 1.1 supports dynamic overlays, which should greatly reduce 
(if not eliminate) restarts during extension development. Because of 
this, I'd like to poke at some sort of rapid extension development tool. 
I think the extensions developer extension might already cover this, but 
I haven't played with the new FF features yet.

-Nikolas Coukouma