Greasing your way to Nice Titles
Nice Titles in GreaseMonkey: just what I wanted from the start. I turned mine off here, so if you want them you’ll need to ‘monkey them back.
Nice Titles in GreaseMonkey: just what I wanted from the start. I turned mine off here, so if you want them you’ll need to ‘monkey them back.
I think we’re about to see an explosion of this type of scripting, now that the infrastructure is there for a quick-and-dirty script without the hassle of wrapping it up as an .xpi. A lot of the ”innovations” (or at least cool little tricks) that came out of blogging in the past few years have always seemed backwards to me.
Highlighting of Google search terms when referred from Google? Ought to be integrated on the client side, not the individual server side. Nice titles? Ditto. Funny little markings to denote external links, or links to PDF/Flash/non-HTML? Ditto. [insert your favorite almost-as-powerful-as-HTML markup] support in comment forms? Ditto. Just accept HTML with a whitelist of tags/attributes, and leave it up to the user to install a plugin that lets them enter comments in whatever fucked up format-of-the-day they prefer. The plugin can convert it to real markup just before posting, and the server will never know the difference.
Firefox is the new Emacs. Greasemonkey is the new .emacs file. Javascript is the new Lisp.