Monkeying with the Web
p2pnet.net News:- You can now monkey with the web.
Literally.
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (`user scripts`) to any web page to change its behavior, says mozdev.
In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a web page’s style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a web page’s design or interaction.
Whoa!
Greasemonkey was, heavily inspired by Adrian Holovaty’s site-specific extension for All Music Guide and the conversation which ensued after he published it, states the post: There were tons of sites I wanted to create SSE’s for, but fully-fledged firefox extensions proved too cumbersome. I wanted it to be as easy to create an SSE as it is to write DHTML.
And Mark Pilgrim has already produced a free, downloadable instruction book.
When we checked it out there were 223 projects in hand, with these as the first 10:
- abcadd – Firefox extension for adding torrents to a remote ABC session – May 12th 2005
- abctajpu – Type accented letters easily – Apr 27th 2005
- accountex – Export/Import account settings – May 4th 2005
- AdBlock – Enables users to filter images – Apr 26th 2005
- addneditcookies – Extension to add and edit session only and saved cookies – Mar 26th 2005
- Admin – Administrative tools and documentation for the site – May 13th 2005
- adsensenotifier – Displays your adsense earnings on the statusbar – Apr 28th 2005
- advisor – Mozilla Content Advisor – Mar 18th 2005
- afrikaans – Afrikaans Mozilla translations – Apr 8th 2005
- afront – aFront RSS Reader – Apr 30th 2005
(Thanks, Treb)
Stay tuned.
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