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Re: jQuery and GreaseMonkey

Blair Mitchelmore — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:16:27 -0000

In case you didn't get around to xpi fiddling, I just modified a greamonkey xpi to include a copy of jquery. I don't know if it works but I'll host it at http://jquery.offput.ca/greasemonkey-0.6.4-fx.xpi for anyone willing to try.

Re: jQuery and GreaseMonkey

Paul Watson — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:37:41 -0000

I tried that out Blair and it didn't work. Is there a special trick to getting it to work?

Good idea on the XPI though, I'll give that a bash and save the servers.

Re: jQuery and GreaseMonkey

Blair Mitchelmore — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:20:48 -0000

Or... (duh) put a copy of jQuery inside a greasemonkey script set to run on all pages...

Install the user script and you're set...

Re: jQuery and GreaseMonkey

Blair Mitchelmore — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:13:22 -0000

Or you could roll your own greasemonkey xpi with jquery added in. then you could reference it through the chrome:// interface afforded to firefox. Same technique you just don't have to rely on the jquery server.

Re: jQuery and GreaseMonkey

David Stone — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:42:28 -0000

Yeah. That's actually a better idea. It was kinda late last night when I wrote that. ;)

Another thing that breaks-ish is that if you include all sites with that user script, then secure sites won't be marked as secure because some items aren't secured.

Re: jQuery and GreaseMonkey

Jörn — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:33:48 -0000

Hey David,

> theScript.src = “http://jquery.com/src/latest.js”;

including jQuery directly from John's server is something you should avoid. Though it was recommened in the jQuery tutorial, it could produce quite a lot of traffic and therefore costs for John.

On the other hand, it should be no problem to simply include a local copy of jQuery. AFAIK the "lastest" version isn't currently updated anymore.

Re: jQuery and GreaseMonkey

David Stone — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:33:51 -0000

Same trick we use in CPhog:

var theScript = document.createElement("script");
theScript.src = "http://jquery.com/src/latest.js";
theScript.language = "javascript";
document.body.insertBefore(theScript, document.body.firstChild);

:)

I even opened up Firebug to try it out...it works. :)