{"id":554,"date":"2005-08-23T15:30:36","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T22:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp\/?p=554"},"modified":"2005-08-23T15:30:36","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T22:30:36","slug":"this-weeks-greasemonkey-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2005\/08\/23\/this-weeks-greasemonkey-script\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Greasemonkey Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sog\/36617100\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos32.flickr.com\/36617100_87547d930e_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n <\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sog\/36617100\/\">Greasemonkey Enabled Gmail Popups<\/a><br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/sog\/\">sogrady<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the youngpup (AKA Aaron Boodman) <a href=\"http:\/\/youngpup.net\/2005\/0821092919\">may be suffering<\/a> from post-Foo camp apprehension that Greasemonkey can&#8217;t continue to live up to expectations, I can&#8217;t say that I share his concern. Quite the contrary; I keep discovering tremendous new scripts for the Firefox plugin that make my various web applications dramatically more usable. <\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s example is the <a href=\"http:\/\/userscript.org\/scripts\/show\/1554\">Gmail conversation preview<\/a> feature, that mimics the bubble preview feature seen in a variety of Ajax applications, most recently in the Zimbra demo we saw. Not a huge fan of the right-click to preview mechanism, but that&#8217;s a minor issue. This is a very cool addition, IMO. <\/p>\n<p>So for what it&#8217;s worth, youngpup, I&#8217;ve got faith. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/sogrady\/archives\/000309.html\">BASF kind of way<\/a>, GM doesn&#8217;t make the sites I visit or the applications I use, it makes them better. I know it&#8217;s not the same as getting props from a Caterina Fake, a Tim O&#8217;Reilly, or a Paul Graham, but oh well \ud83d\ude09<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greasemonkey Enabled Gmail Popups Originally uploaded by sogrady. While the youngpup (AKA Aaron Boodman) may be suffering from post-Foo camp apprehension that Greasemonkey can&#8217;t continue to live up to expectations, I can&#8217;t say that I share his concern. Quite the contrary; I keep discovering tremendous new scripts for the Firefox plugin that make my various<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}