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Creammonkey is great - but where are the scripts?
I found a Safari plugin by the name of Creammonkey, which is more or less an attempt at bringing Greasemonkey's abilities to Safari's side of the fence. For those unfamiliar
with Greasemonkey: it's a Firefox extension that allows savvy javascript ninjas to add functionality to websites and
services, such as enabling colored labels in Gmail or displaying in-bound links for a site you're visiting.It's hard to argue that the idea of adding functionality to websites isn't cool. Even in its infancy, the promises of Creammonkey sound really slick, but my one problem so far is: where are the scripts? Creammonkey is more or less a platform, and I'm having a really hard time tracking down any scripts to plug into it - including those pictured in this screenshot I borrowed.
So, to the devs of Creammonkey (or the fantastic folks at PimpMySafari): could you put together some links to scripts that'll help make Creammonkey shine? Also, to you TUAW readers: does anyone care to link scripts they've found or created? Let's get this javascript party started.
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Iggy said 8:28PM on 3-28-2006
http://shiftingpixel.com/lightbox/
"designed to enhance browsing on websites that link to images such as Google Image Search, Flickr, Gmail, Facebook, MySpace, and deviantART"
havent installed it yet but it looks 'ok'
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LD said 10:03PM on 3-28-2006
Seems silly to waste effort to make this when it can't use off the shelf Greasemonkey scripts.
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Gretyl said 11:40PM on 3-28-2006
Gotta say I agree with LD. Incompatibility with Greasemonkey seems kinda wonky, though I bet it results from Safari's WebKit-ness versus Firefox's Gecko-ness. Call it a hunch.
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Jon Hicks said 2:13AM on 3-29-2006
Information on Creammonkey is scant to say the least, although this chap has created some scripts that work in both creammonkey AND greasemonkey:
http://www.gingerbeardman.com/
PithHelmet also has a wiki for user scripts (its allowed per-site javascript for a while now):
http://culater.net/wiki/moin.cgi/PithHelmetRuleExchange
LD - the problem is that that Safari's javascript/dom support isn't up to Firefox's yet (It doesn't support xPath), so many things you can do in Greasemonkey just won't work in Safari.
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Stewart said 2:11PM on 3-29-2006
http://www.userscripts.org
And I've found PithHelmet's implementation to work a lot better and easier, not to mention more stable. Although the previous posts are correct in that many scripts will just not work at all in Safari.
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Matt Sephton said 9:24AM on 4-05-2006
I know the author of Creammonkey is looking into XPath for Safari using JavaScript
http://mcc.id.au/xpathjs/
I know this, because I snooped on his bookmarks using my referrer log. :)
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CajunLuke said 8:31PM on 4-19-2006
I've found that the "YouTube to Me" script for GreaseMonkey works in Creammonkey.
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