[Greasemonkey] Greasemonkey Imports for 0.6.4

[Johan Sundström]

On 12/30/05, Jeremy Dunck <jdunck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/30/05, Gareth Andrew <freega at freegarethandrew.org> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've finally got off my ass and updated my imports patch for
>
> Thanks Gareth. :)

Figuring this wasn't a useful approach to go about contributing
towards a more DRY greasemonkey future; what would be? I assume Aaron
and others might want to outline some design thoughts on solutions
that *would* hit the main repository, even if invented elsewhere.

http://www.freegarethandrew.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=GreasemonkeyImports&oldid=165

is the latest revision of Gareth's docs I find that is free of
spamdalism, if someone wants to go back to browse what was suggested
last time (in summary: an "@import alias URL" mechanism combined with
a GM_Import( alias ) returning an object you could call getContents()
on to get the imported URL's contents as a javascript string).

Admittedly crude and just something of a starter, but even so a useful
one. Except of course useless, in the sense of not being there in the
mainline GM. I am considering following up in Gareth's trails, if
there is a way of getting an import facility into GM proper. What do
we want?

I'm not short of ideas of my own, but do not want to trip the "nah;
that's a bad suggestion; screw that" mentality, so I won't air any in
this post. :-) The most important bit, to me, is to make progress,
even if maintainers lack the needed time to put in the work at the
moment.

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