[Greasemonkey] Greasemonkey Imports

[Aaron Boodman]

wooooo nice :-) love the multipurposeness of it. very slick. Thanks
for the feature!

On 9/8/05, Gareth Andrew <freega at freegarethandrew.org> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have added the ability to attach files to a greasemonkey script, so
> that when it is installed the files get downloaded and saved with the
> script.
> I have added a new metadata annotation @import. This annotation has two
> parameters, a symbolic name for the import, and a url from which the
> import can be downloaded eg.
> 
> // ==UserScript==
> // @name          MyUserScript
> // ...
> // @import  importName  http://example.com/path/to/import
> 
> The user script can access the import by calling GM_getImport(<import
> name>). This function returns a GM_Import object with three accessor
> functions.
> 
>       * getFileURL() - this method returns a file:/// url (as a string)
>         pointing at the imported resource.
>       * getContents() - this method returns the file contents (as a
>         string).
>       * getDataURL() - this method returns the file contents encoded as
>         a data URL (as a string). Not yet implemented.
> 
> Imports can be any filetype (although there are obvious security
> considerations here), so they can be used for embedding
> images/multimedia, externalising css and html, or as a means to import
> javascript libraries.
> Javascript libraries can be injected withe by using eval() which makes
> the code immediately available as if it were written inline, or by
> inserting the script into the document via the DOM, which is useful for
> scripts that are not aware of greasemonkey.
> 
> Most of the API's listed on
> http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts#preview do not require
> chrome privileges, and could easily be implemented as libraries.  This
> combats the potential feature bloat problem that happens when
> everybody's favourite function is added to greasemonkey.  It also means
> that it is much easier to take advantge of JS libraries not written for
> greasemonkey such as. MochaKit, TrimPath, Prototype etc.
> 
> Please post your feedback, and if you're very brave try out the code
> (based on 0.6.x - so I don't know if it works on 1.0.x).  More
> information available at
> http://www.freegarethandrew.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=GreasemonkeyImports
> 
> Gareth.
> 
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