I gotta sound off on this one. I am completely for the old style script management. It worked, and worked well. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Sargent Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 5:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [greasemonkey-users] Re: Old style script management On 2/3/2011 12:39 PM, Anthony Lieuallen wrote: > >> 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. > I'm pretty sure previously you could edit a script, and not lose the includes and excludes that you had added via the script manager. Also, that "success rate" is bogus. Problems won't start cropping up until people install updates to existing scripts, which could be weeks or months down the road. -- 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. -- 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.
