Greasemonkey as a Lightweight Intermediary
Simon Willison,
Mar 30, 2005
We're still in the early stages of this, but rapidly approaching a time when websites will be manipulated at will by the browser. This item is a description of Greasemonkey, a Firefox extension that lets you create a JavaScript function that is executed whenever your browser loads a given page; the script loads and displays extra data in from another server. In other words, it is very similar to my rotating themes, except that it's called from the browser, not the web page. And you know, I look at this and I ask, where was Microsoft for all those years when Internet Explorer was the only game in town? It's like innovation stopped for five years - and now, with Firefox, it's back again (and so is that giddy feeling from the late 90s when the web was so much fun).
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