[Greasemonkey] Re: Video presentation of Chickenfoot extension to Firefox

[Julien Couvreur]

Re-sending. It looks like this didn't reach the mailinglist (I still
can't see it in the mailinglist archive).


On 8/6/06, Julien Couvreur <julien.couvreur at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>