[Greasemonkey] Any Greasemonkey applications out there?

[Matthew Weymar]

On 7/2/06, Jeremy Dunck <jdunck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/2/06, Matthew Weymar <matthew.weymar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm impressed by the number of these that are broken.
> ...
> > Is this a GM 0.6.4 / FF 1.5.0.x problem?... If so, is this problem
> likely
> > common to many / most / all?! of these scripts' problems?
>
> I haven't checked them.
> Some of them are broken by the change to using xpcnative wrappers
> (part of the API leakage fix in 0.5.x), some are broken by the switch
> to sandbox (in 0.6.x), and some are broken by changes in the sites
> they target.
>
> And if so,
> > wouldn't it then be pretty easy to solve at least a bunch of these
> scripts'
> > problems by making this one adjustment?...
>
> What one adjustment?


I was thinking of the xpcnative wrappers leakage fix, and assuming - very
possibly incorrectly - that it might be easy enough to write a macro that
would (at least) search a user script for old, incompatible grammar, and
(ideally also) replace it with update grammar. Or not?...

Ditto later (analogous?) changes?...

Scripts aren't often maintained-- which is the argument for
> wikification of script-sharing.


Indeed, this makes all the sense in the world. Since you put it in terms of
a wiki: Conceptually, I was imagining something analogous to an
AutoWikiBrowser <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser>,
i.e., "a semi-automated Wikipedia editor ... designed to make tedious
repetitive tasks quicker and easier."

But I guess, even if such a thing were technically feasible, there might not
be enough utility at stake to justify the investment in such a thing.... I
just don't know.

Matthew