[Greasemonkey] Video presentation of Chickenfoot extension to Firefox

[Julien Couvreur]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8967914974980683249&q=type%3Agoogle%20engEDU

Chickenfoot is similar to Greasemonkey, but attempts to simplify the
programming task to let users write their own scripts without knowing
javascript.
Here's a quick list of the differences with Greasemonkey:
-Simple language
-Primitives for basic operations ("click", "insert",...) and fuzzy
command interpretation (("keyword commands": Chickenfoot will
interpret your command and find the most likely meaning)
-Support for matching ("feeling lucky button", "search button", ...)
-Interactive environment

The most interesting part for Greasemonkey is probably the matching.
It seems an expensive operation, since it scans the entire page to
rank matches and do some additional processing, but it seems quite
user-friendly.
The description of the pattern matching starts at (15m25s):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8967914974980683249&q=type%3Agoogle%20engEDU#15m25s
Beyond Greasemonkey, I'd think this kind of matching would be useful
to include in a web or UI testing framework.

Didn't read their publications yet, but you can get them at
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/publications.html

Cheers,
Julien