Greasemonkey
Ryan Shaw: The key to survival will be going meta: design for the bright kids. Create a flexible, modular set of APIs and a well-documented example UI or two that shows how they are used. Learn from Amazon and release your grip on the end-user experience. But developments like Greasemonkey disrupt more that just job descriptions: they disrupt business models too.
Here’s a directory of scripts. For Safari users, check out PithHelmet Machete scripts.
My favorite example so far is Simon Willison’s msdn-platinfo.
I’d been thinking not long ago about how many sites don’t work with “non-standard” browsers for minor reasons and how it would be cool if there were a way to issue little patches for those sites until their maintainers got......
Excerpt from Coty's Weblog at
Programming in the browser…
Getting Unicode straight across platforms has been a huge hangup for me in trying to get together some tutorials on doing language processing with Python. And then, there’s another barrier to cross: how to deal with markup? Generally speaking, what...Excerpt from infundibulum at
My favourite so far is this one, which actually adds a new feature (persistent search folders) to GMail by hooking in to the already existing JavaScript functions on that site. Properly document them and you’ve got a JavaScript API.
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