Greasemonkey Hacks Book reviewed
Greasemonkey Hacks is an invaluable compendium 100 ingenious hacks for power users who want to master Greasemonkey, the hot new Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts that alter the web pages you visit. With Greasemonkey, you can create scripts that make a web site more usable, fix rendering bugs that site owners can't be bothered to fix themselves, or add items to a web site's menu bar. You can alter pages so they work better with technologies that speak a web page out loud or convert it to Braille. Greasemonkey gurus can even import, combine, and alter data from different web sites to meet their own specific needs.
The book include really lots of Hacks by different contributors, like how to Make Pop-up Titles Prettier, Keeping Track of Secure Site Passwords, Add Keyboard Shortcuts to Google Search Results, Add Saved Searches to Gmail, Make Google More Accessible for Low-Vision Users, Bypass Annoying Site Registrations, Syndicate Encrypted Content, Compare Book Prices and Trace XMLHttpRequest Activity.
The Trace XMLHttpRequest Activity hack is contributed by Julien Couvreur, a very useful hack which will allow you to log XMLHTTPRequest calls into Javascript Console. You can get this hack free from the Oreilly website [PDF]. Sample code are of course availble at the Oreilly site too.
Its one of the interesting hacks, and Greasemonkey offer a great API to work with XMLHTTPRequest. This book will help you with Greasmonkey script programming with hundreds of hacks and useful tools such Platypus. All things that you don't know, now you can do it easily. Really thanks guys for this book and for this great tool.
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