Imagine the following conversation: "Oh, you use Twitter? What mods are you running for it?"
"I just got TweetCred. It's a third-party mod that works from GreaseMonkey. When you unfollow someone, it lets you leave a little eBay-style transaction feedback about them. Other people using TweetCred can browse it before they decide whether they want to follow them. There's no way Twitter would approve it as an app, so this guy just wrote it as a GreaseMonkey script. Has its own third-party server, and you pay $1 for a permanent subscription to the service." "I know what you mean. I got this mod for eBay. Same basic thing, a GM script that has its own off-site server. It's timed to snipe the eBay auctions I've selected, a minute before the bidding ends, up to whatever amount I've told it to bid. Whenever I'm browsing an auction it has this little extra box where I can set the maximum snipe amount. I guess they send that to a third-party server or something, and then it just takes care of the rest from there. I don't even have to be online!" "Jeez, seems like everybody's modding the major sites these days to add functionality they'd never actually have on the site itself. I keep seeing coding jobs on the freelance sites hiring people to write new mods, and there's always new ideas on the crowdfunding websites to get the cash for new modding projects. Imagine if we had to wait on Twitter or eBay or Facebook to add new features. It'd take *forever*! And they'd never be exactly what you wanted." Is this sort of functionality currently possible with GreaseMonkey? And if not, is it planned sometime for the near future? I'd like to help make this happen, and GreaseMonkey seems like a reasonable place to start with it. Or are there other approaches that would be more effective for something like this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
