[Greasemonkey] Mark my links: an E4X example

[Johan Sundström]

> That is a very interesting script, if not in itself all that useful to
> me as no one really links to me.

I have actually found it quite nice regardless, just populating it
with a few sites such as Wikipedia, Flickr, NY Times, Slashdot and
other places people typically refer to, to give visual cues about
where I might end up following links without having to hover them.

> It looks, at a glance, like you might have provisionally solved the
> whole innerHTML vs. DOM dilemma using e4x in your append_to
> function (at least for XHTML)?

Credits should go to Mor Roses, as mentioned, but yes, that was what I
was hoping to do. And it seems to work fine for (injecting into) HTML
(documents) too.

> At least you are appending XML intermixed with javascript variables
> in one fell swoop and if it doesn't solve the dilemma, it makes a lot
> of things I can think of a lot more convenient. Not that I personally
> have big issues with just using innerHTML where appropriate....

I would go easy on the convenience argument; it is *very* easy to
shoot yourself in the foot with a simple typo during development
without getting proper debugging support, so I'm not sure I would
recommend adopting it on a wide scale yet.

> I am also enamored of your event handler construct.
> In theory.

Again, standing on the shoulders of giants, picking the cherries from
the list. I was experiencing very frequent browser crashes and thought
I would try that method. Not sure if it has helped or not, but if
event handler leakage is the problem it has been said to be, at least
it should address that.

Should such problems not go away anytime soon (maybe my assumption of
this being a gc bug in firefox is flawed), I would like to see
something like that in Greasemonkey for a GM_addEvent( to, name, cb,
capture) helper; it is a very unwieldy gob of code to keep around in
every script doing user interaction in more style than prompt() and
confirm().

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 / Johan Sundström, http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/