[Greasemonkey] User input

[Johan Sundström]

On 3/27/06, Aaron Boodman <zboogs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not a bad idea.
>
> One could see using the sidebar for this. What would you prefer,
> a XUL or HTML surface? Maybe both could be provided.
>
> Good idea!

I'd prefer an HTML surface, if only not to further skew the user
script situation into ever deeper chasms of browser specifics to
jump to achieve portability.

Today's user script land is growing increasingly familiar to the
DHTML situation of the nineties, prior to W3C efforts at DOM
standardization, and I don't ever want to go there again, if at all
possible to avoid.

We already have Greasemonkey in Mozilla land, Opera's (native)
user javascript, Safari's Creammonkey, Internet Explorer's Reify
Turnabout, and probably others I forgot, and we are doing end
users a disservice forking up things more than necessary IMO.

HTML is a good common denominator. Even if we put it in side
surfaces not available across browser boundaries, it makes the
porting job less hasslesome.

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