It's quite a shame that with the transition the script sources weren't updated with the metadata set in the GM specific UI. Because with this update you 'broke' scripts for a lot of people (sure, they'd keep working fine, but eventually someone will touch the script trying to figure out what happened).
Not that I want to contest it, but who is saying that this makes any different for the majority of the users. After all, I'm sure most of them just install a script and never look at it again. On the other hand I am kinda glad that GM makes userscripts work like other browsers. All metadata is now in the script source as it is in the other browsers. Of course GM adds several other very handy features that those browsers don't have. So it will never be a level playing field. But I've always found the extra UI to be somewhat superfluous. But then again I'm a programmer myself and like to tinker around. On Feb 3, 7:39 pm, Anthony Lieuallen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/03/11 13:18, Jason Penney wrote: > > > Now I just lost all my configured domains on them because > > while poking around for how to get that UI to pop up I hit edit. In > > desperation I added a single @include rule > > There was an unfortunate one-time loss, here. > > > Also, I update any of these scripts I now have to remember to copy my > > old set of includes and paste them into the new one. > > This was always true, even before this change. > > Ultimately, though, the reason we made this change is that we have well > over three million one-day active users. I've seen perhaps two dozen > complaints about the new UI. If we inconvenience ~ 3000 (rounding _way_ > up) people, but make ~3,000,000 people's experience better, that's a > 99.9% success rate. I judge that to be a better product. > > This change was necessary not primarily for the UI, but to make the rest > of the metadata updating work. Now you can add a @require or @resource > at any time, and it works. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en.
