[Greasemonkey] Chickenfoot... Maybe

[Dave Land]

On Aug 9, 2006, at 4:24 AM, Johan Sundström wrote:

> On 8/9/06, Dave Land <land at aol.com> wrote:
>> I installed Chickenfoot just now. Thought I'd take it for a spin.
>>
>> Went to their "Quick Start Guide" and [...] Instant failure: [...]
>
> By the looks of the Chickenfoot website there is an excellent list at
> https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/chickenfoot-users where
> we can dive into chickenfeet success and failure stories; see you
> there!
>
>> Chickenfoot just went the way of so many extensions:
>> in, then out again right away.
>
> Or not. Oh, well. Cheers, anyway!

Thanks to Johan and Matteo for their clear-eyed responses to my
tirade against Chickenfoot. There is much to like there, as well,
once I got over the "oh, hell, not another darned language to
learn" and the single-threadedness of the Mac implementation of
Firefox.

I especially like the integrated editor with its real-time
interpretation of scripts and pattern-matching and I think (for
those with multi-threaded Firefox who don't hit what appears to
be a steep first step in the learning curve) that it will bring
lots of new folks into the "user scripting" realm.

Actually, the language they've cooked up reminds me a little bit of
REBOL, a high-level "messaging language" designed for building
networked applications. I recall finding it an attractive
distraction for a while...

Dave=