[Greasemonkey] a difference in vision

[Matthew Gertner]

Nikolas,

> I think we're going to see Greasemonkey (& relatives) and extensions
> approach each other over time. For example, I'd like to play with making
> "HTML overlays" similar to XUL ones. That would cover the people who
> want to embed HTML nicely and be perfect for platypus. One of the nice
> things about working within DOM is that it's loosly equivalent to well
> formed XML.

Not in my book. The different with XML is that there is a contract between
the content author and the content consumer (albeit often an implicit one).
Working with an HTML DOM is definitely streets better than hacking around
with regular expressions, but it's still far too fragile because anything
you do will break next time they change the site.

> The future will be interesting.

Yep!

Matt