Sort of like GreaseMonkey, but in addition to pure JS adds a nice API for simple access to most common operations. Pretty neat.
One wonders though why they didn't implement it as a general js library that could also be used from gm.
Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web
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Re: Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web
#12Have barely tried anything with javascript. This instantly reminded me of the joy of the learning HTML in Mozilla back in the day. Will now, finally, be learning some javascript.
Re: Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web
#13I worked as a developer on Chickenfoot for about 6 months going into my sophomore year at MIT. It does share a lot of similarities with GreaseMonkey, but I've found it to be a much more powerful tool for writing quick scripts to perform simple interactions with web sites. This is largely assisted by its API of commonly used operations (some of which I wrote).
The ability to quickly package your Chickenfoot scripts into Firefox extensions also holds a lot of value.
Re: Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web
#14They'd need to sort this out before it can be widely recommended: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/faq.html#xss
Is there a way to find the text you need to append after the # symbol (#xss) to get to a particular section without looking at the page source or using the TOC links?
Re: Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web
#15I worked as a developer on Chickenfoot for about 6 months going into my sophomore year at MIT. It does share a lot of similarities with GreaseMonkey, but I've found it to be a much more powerful tool for writing quick scripts to perform simple interactions with web sites. This is largely assisted by its API of commonly used operations (some of which I wrote). The ability to quickly package your Chickenfoot scripts in…
The ability to quickly package your Chickenfoot scripts into Firefox extensions also holds a lot of value
Definitely! I'm really interested in that feature - could you link to some docs of it? Couldn't find much on the site
Re: Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
One significant advantage that Selenium seems to have is that it accepts CSS3 selectors as target element patterns. Chickenfoot has XPath, but not CSS3. A bit of a bummer because this otherwise looks like it will be fun to play with.
I use Selenium regularly and while it is exceptionally useful, it's also quite buggy. I heard mumblings some time ago about Google contributing to the Selenium project or even forking it, but I'm not certain what's happened there.
I created the Selenium project 6 years ago. These days, I'm working on my own Selenium-based startup, Sauce Labs ( http://saucelabs.com ) -- We offer commercial support for Selenium and have a cloud-based web app testing service, too, called Sauce OnDemand.
Regarding Google, you might be thinking of the on-going merger between the Selenium and the WebDriver projects. WebDriver was created by Googler Simon Stewart. He currently works at Google, but WebDriver was created when Simon was still at ThoughtWorks. Also, I am a former Googler (and former ThoughtWorker), and worked on Selenium during my time at both places.
Re: Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web
#17Sort of like GreaseMonkey, but in addition to pure JS adds a nice API for simple access to most common operations. Pretty neat.
One wonders though why they didn't implement it as a general js library that could also be used from gm.
You know, it's open source, you can just grab the code.
This situation is kinda the point of free software mate.
Re: Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web
#18They'd need to sort this out before it can be widely recommended: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/faq.html#xss
Is there a way to find the text you need to append after the # symbol (#xss) to get to a particular section without looking at the page source or using the TOC links?
Not in stock browsers. But if you are happy with a bookmarklet solution, see the 'named anchors' bookmarklet on this page:
Re: Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a way to find the text you need to append after the # symbol (#xss) to get to a particular section without looking at the page source or using the TOC links?
Not in stock browsers. But if you are happy with a bookmarklet solution, see the 'named anchors' bookmarklet on this page: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html
I use the webdev toolbar addon for this: Information > Display Anchors.