Would anyone be so kind as to point me in the direction of a Greasemonkey (or at least highly Greasemonkey-aware) forum, where I can ask questions in the presence of a community in the future? Is there even such a place?
Maybe if there isn’t a Greasemonkey forum, someone can answer my question… How do I open a new window/tab with a Greasemonkey script? I’d normally use window.open (and Firefox will open new windows in new tabs automatically, right?), but according to Firefox the script originates from the page it is executed on thus disabling the window.open feature. Is there a way to force it to automatically open a new window/tab like an extension would be able to do? I can’t find answers anywhere.
greasemonkey.mozdev.org/list.html is what you’re looking for. Lots of helpful people therein.
But point taken, we need a message board!
June 18th, 2005 at 1:12 pm
I did see the mailing list page on the Mozdev site, but I don’t like mailing lists because I get all of those extra emails in my blog. Whereas with a forum, I can visit a web site instead of login to my email and have to download 300-some-odd emails. I think mailing lists are clumsy and forums (or web-based community systems such as wikis) are much more elegant and manageable. I hope you understand. Still, I suppose I’ll have to check it out (and perhaps just unsubscribe from the list after I get a response to my question). That is, if I want an answer. Thanks, though.
June 18th, 2005 at 7:39 pm
Well it depends on the use case.
Mailing lists are ideal when there are tons of messages flowing among a core group. Can you imagine using a bulletin board system to communicate within a software team? I would tear my hair out. A forum UI is just too clumsy for that kind of use.
On the other hand, when you’re not a regular member and you just want to ask one question, the overhead of having to subscribe and then receive tons of messages unrelated to your question is wasteful compared to the one interaction you’re interested in.
I guess that explains why many software products have one or more mailing lists (for developers) and a bulletin board (for users).
June 19th, 2005 at 12:35 pm
That’s very true, Boogs. Very true, indeed!
June 19th, 2005 at 10:13 pm
Check out
dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mozilla.firefox.greasemonkey
HTH
NilsR
June 20th, 2005 at 9:01 pm
Thanks, Nils, but I can’t seem to find what I’m looking for there.
June 21st, 2005 at 12:06 am
Hi Jona.
I thought Gmane would give you access to the mailinglist without the drawbacks you mentioned:
The advantage of using Gmain is that it doesn’t split up people (into for/against certain presentation formats) nor the data (into two different message bases).
NilsR
June 21st, 2005 at 6:08 pm
Good point, Nils. You’re right…
June 21st, 2005 at 6:34 pm