[Greasemonkey] Changes in CVS

[Mark Pilgrim]

On 11/18/05, Aaron Boodman <zboogs at gmail.com> wrote:
> But none of these things are supported in Firefox. Even getting the
> install bar to show up was a quest of mamoth proportions as it doesn't
> have much of a useable API.
>
> So I'm left with two choices for the immediate term: leave the
> animation (a vast number of users thing Greasemonkey just doesn't
> work), or scale back the current (0.5.3) confirmation dialog -
> downloading dialog - install success dialog procession to a
> downloading animation followed by a success dialog. This annoys some
> number of users, but I think it's mostly developers who are repeatedly
> installing scripts. They should edit the scripts directly to avoid
> this.
>
> So for now I chose the second option, but I will revisit it.

Just wanted to pipe in here and say thank you.  I know people think
modal dialog boxes are annoying, and they're right, but I think it's
the best choice if we can't get the bar at the top to work like when
Firefox blocks a popup window.  (I'm pretty sure that that bar is
accessible, in that it is exposed as an MSAA_ROLE_ALERT to assistive
technologies, but I'd have to double check on that.)  For the time
being, Aaron is right: developer's shouldn't be reinstalling scripts;
they should be "live editing".  (*cough* Buy "Greasemonkey Hacks", it
goes into great detail about developing scripts, even more than DiG.
*cough*)

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Cheers,
-Mark