Folks,
What happened to the normally-friendly Greasemonkey community?
I've been a subscriber to this list and its predecessor on mozdev.org
since 2005, when it was freqeunted by the likes of Aaron Boodman, Jeremy
Dunck and Mark Pilgrim. I have only once seen it get this testy (and
then, over something unrelated to the product: a member's over-the-top
reactions to people complaining about the HUGE FONT he used in his
posts).
Here's my thoughts on this kerfuffle:
People who weren't involved in the minutiae of Greasemonkey development
were caught up by a change that removed a feature that some obviously
found useful. They asked "what the hell?"
Not all of them were polite.
Not all of them were rude.
They only asked, "what the hell?"
Some tried to reason: If the only place we store the @include/@exclude
data is in the scripts, then that'll get nuked if I update the script.
Or: "But I liked it that way, and I have dozens of scripts and hundreds
of include/exclude rules that are trashed now..."
Anthony Lieuallen (and others, but mostly Anthony) jumped on them with
both feet, railing about how they'd had their chance to get in front of
this change months and months ago, etc, etc, etc. Surprisingly hostile
responses to end-users having trouble with a change.
I've lived in the world where GM is going for a year now, on Google
Chrome. It's simply not as good as GM was. Now, evidently, neither is
GM. C'est la vie. I'll edit my headers and try not to disturb the
delicate genius.
In the meanwhile, if you're running FF4, there is this: Developer Erik
Vold has branched GM, planning to restore the user-managed
include/exclude UI. Kinda too soon to tell if he'll actually get
there, but if you want an environment where such suggestions are not
scorned as the whining of dilettantes, then give it a look.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scriptish/
I'm not saying that everybody should jump ship. GM rocks, and always
has. But it's not the only ship on the sea any more. The developers
would do well to give an ear to their users — even if they think that
we're just a bunch of complaining babies.
Bye for now,
Dave
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