Comments on: Platypus and user scripts for Bonsai http://www.squarefree.com/2005/05/12/platypus-and-user-scripts-for-bonsai/ Jesse Ruderman on Firefox, security, and more Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:56:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Scott Turner http://www.squarefree.com/2005/05/12/platypus-and-user-scripts-for-bonsai/comment-page-1/#comment-1250 Scott Turner Sat, 14 May 2005 03:13:23 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/2005/05/12/platypus-and-user-scripts-for-bonsai/#comment-1250 First of all, Jesse, thanks for using Platypus and giving it a work out. Kind of you not to mention the bugs you found :-). Second, it's interesting to see you distributing Platypus-generated scripts. I hadn't thought about that, but it's logical. Finally, as to why you need Platypus & Greasemonkey installed: You have to have Greasemonkey because it provides the basic scripting capability. You have to have Platypus installed because it provides a bunch of functions (like "apply this regular expression to every URL on the page") that are used in the Platypus-generated scripts. Platypus *could* inject all the code needed into every script it generated (so that you wouldn't have to have Platypus installed) but it would make every script something like 40K long and even worse would offend my sense of coding elegance :-). Feel free to promote this comment up to the top of your blog if you think there's general interest in this answer. -- Scott Turner First of all, Jesse, thanks for using Platypus and giving it a work out. Kind of you not to mention the bugs you found :-).

Second, it’s interesting to see you distributing Platypus-generated scripts. I hadn’t thought about that, but it’s logical.

Finally, as to why you need Platypus & Greasemonkey installed: You have to have Greasemonkey because it provides the basic scripting capability. You have to have Platypus installed because it provides a bunch of functions (like “apply this regular expression to every URL on the page”) that are used in the Platypus-generated scripts. Platypus *could* inject all the code needed into every script it generated (so that you wouldn’t have to have Platypus installed) but it would make every script something like 40K long and even worse would offend my sense of coding elegance :-).

Feel free to promote this comment up to the top of your blog if you think there’s general interest in this answer.

– Scott Turner

]]> By: Jesse Ruderman http://www.squarefree.com/2005/05/12/platypus-and-user-scripts-for-bonsai/comment-page-1/#comment-1249 Jesse Ruderman Fri, 13 May 2005 04:43:50 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/2005/05/12/platypus-and-user-scripts-for-bonsai/#comment-1249 I agree, that would be better. And then Platypus wouldn't have to inject a function into every page you load. I agree, that would be better. And then Platypus wouldn’t have to inject a function into every page you load.

]]> By: Jed http://www.squarefree.com/2005/05/12/platypus-and-user-scripts-for-bonsai/comment-page-1/#comment-1247 Jed Fri, 13 May 2005 04:39:57 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/2005/05/12/platypus-and-user-scripts-for-bonsai/#comment-1247 That's wierd. Why would you need platyus installed for using the greasemonkey user script? You would think platypus should generate a user script that works just for greasemonkey. That’s wierd.

Why would you need platyus installed for using the greasemonkey user script?
You would think platypus should generate a user script that works just for greasemonkey.

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