[Greasemonkey] APIs

[Lenny Domnitser]

On 9/4/05, Martin Sarsale <martin at malditainternet.com> wrote:
> GM_remoteGetValue (and Set): works exactly like gm_setValue but stores
> the data (possibly crypted) in a remote, user configurable server.
> then, you can have the same preferences/configs/whatever on different
> computers. The remote server should be configured script-wide. The
> server should have a REST simple interface and we should release a
> open source version of it.

This seems like something that is very useful for one or two scripts,
but is not "reimplement[ed] ... over and over inside user scripts", as
Aaron said the criteria were. I would certainly like to see you (or
somebody) implement this, but it doesn't seem like a wide enough
problem to solve as a GM_* API.

In fact, if this were to be implemented as GM_remoteGetValue(myUri,
myVarName), this would create more problems than it solves, since
people not wishing to keep their data on a script-writer's server will
have to rewrite or avoid the script.

A better solution, in my opinion, would be to write a new script value
storage system (a rewrite has already been discussed) that could
transparently write to and read from local disk or a remote location
based on the user's preference, from the standard GM_[gs]etValue
functions.