[Greasemonkey] API brainstorming: GM services?

[Julien Couvreur]

One other use case I had in mind: for something like Mark's magicline,
you would keep a database in memory as a service and sync it
periodically to a remote server.

On 9/21/05, Jeremy Dunck <jdunck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/21/05, Julien Couvreur <julien.couvreur at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> > The idea is to create the concept of "user services". They would be
> > available to user scripts.
> > Some more brainstorming would be needed to figure out how these things
> > are installed and started.
>
> So I'm gun-shy on security.  A big problem I see with this is that
> various scripts could share state between (same or) different scripts
> between pages and domains inadvertantly.
>
> So, we'd have to design to avoid that...
>
> On the other hand, I can see this crazy inter-page messaging system
> being crazily useful.   Say, one script gathers info while surfing and
> dispatches info to another user script on another (un-surfed) tab.
> Intermediated shopping cart, for example.
>
> GM_telnet still sounds nuts to me.  :)
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