In the past, there was no alternative to GreaseMonkey. Now there is. If a script doesn't work in GreaseMonkey, many people will shift over to TamperMonkey.
Async APIs might* be a good idea going forward, but priority should be on making sure that you don't break most scripts. Also, Tampermonkey has a previous version which was open source, so you might be able to pull from that. *I say might because I'm not sold on promises. I still can't get my head around them, as I can't find anything that really explains them except to programmers already used to similar concepts in other languages. And I think most userscript authors are amateur. Plus, well, you aren't the only one defining APIs anymore. On Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at 12:18:09 PM UTC-5, Anthony Lieuallen wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:52 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Or using ES2017, something like: >> >> let sData = await GM.getValue("serialised") ; >> let oData = JSON.parse(sData) ; >> // useful things still happen here. >> >> > I've largely decided to go for ideal design/good performance. Since I'm > also learning the new WebExt APIs along the way I might not do so > perfectly, but I'm trying. This means new async APIs. The possibility for > compatibility-increasing shims, even perhaps automatic ones, is not > impossible. But this proposal you have above is basically exactly what I'm > doing. New APIs return promises. You can await > <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/await> > > a promise and get code like the example you've got above. > > We've been through painful compatibility migrations in the past. They're > not awesome, but they happen. Plus, roughly half of all scripts use no > privileged APIs and won't be affected. In the future we can invest effort > into repairing compatibility with old scripts that haven't been updated. > But now (read: by the time 57 is out and we have to do something to not > break 100%) we'll have something that works, and efficiently. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
