Re: [Greasemonkey] Apply Script Now – ex post facto

[Aaron Boodman]

GM_registerMenuCommand?

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On 1/4/06, Nikolas Coukouma <lists at atrus.org> wrote:
> Roderick McGuire wrote:
> > Now that greasemonkey scripts have been sandboxed there is no longer any
> > real connection between reading a web page and applying a script to it.
> > Maybe users should be able to say when to apply a script.
> (snip)
> A good chunk of the point of Greasemonkey is convenience. Bookmarklets
> do exactly what you describe. Also, it's easy to modify a script so that
> it only runs when asked. I've done this a few times for the reasons
> you've described.
>
> > I run several userscripts many of which really don't need to be active
> > if I could only say: "activate the script for this page". The problem is
> > that the scripts can alter the DOM and other scripts are expecting an
> > un-altered DOM.
> I don't think it's Greasemonkey's job to police scripts. Firefox doesn't
> check for conflicting extensions.
>
> The only way I can think of is making a complete copy of the document
> for each user script and merging changes. While I suppose this could be
> done, it seems extremely expensive and complicated with little benefit.
> It seems that it should be rare to have so many user scripts running at
> the same time for it to be an issue. For scripts that are are difficult
> to untangle, it seems reasonable to merge them. I'd suspect that they're
> doing similar jobs if they're fiddling with similar parts of the DOM.
>
> Just some thoughts.
>
> -Nikolas
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