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I see that you've invented Greasemonkey. Unfortunately, it has already been around for the last 8 years. What's more, Chrome actually has native support for Gre

I see that you've invented Greasemonkey. Unfortunately, it has already been around for the last 8 years. What's more, Chrome actually has native support for Greasemonkey scripts – no plugin needed. http://blog.chromium.org/2010/02/40000-more-extensions.html http://blog.chromium.org/2010/02/40000-more-extensions.html EDIT: My comment has been misunderstood by some, so let me try to be clearer: I like your plugin, I just wanted to let you know a plugin with similar functionality has been around for a long time, in case you were planning on spending a lot of time on it.

d0m 14y ago
No need to be a jerk about it. And, I particularly like how it makes it easy to tweak the page in real-time.
karthikksv 14y ago
Does Greasemonkey make it easy to modify styles as well? This is simple if you can insert arbitrary JS, but it'll be annoying if you need to write JS to insert CSS for every site you want to edit. I just wanted a simple way to edit CSS without having to go to my editor or a different web page, especially for sites that I visit often. Perhaps the tool I was looking for did already exist.
- _ZeD_ 14y ago
  Greasemonkey (+ userscript) and your plug in attack two different parts of the problems. While "my style" it's great for "live" css editing, greasemonkey+userscript have a community and shines for the "share your modification" thing. May I suggest you to get in touch with gm/us developers? It would be awesome to be able to write a custom css for a site and share it!
  - randomchars 14y ago
    There's an extension called stylish, and a corresponding website [0]. [0]: http://userstyles.org/ http://userstyles.org/
alphakappa 14y ago
What's your point? Maybe he did it because it was an itch he wanted to scratch. It would be more useful to critique his project and maybe offer some constructive criticism, than to offer this snark.
pseudobry 14y ago
Even if he is planning on spending a lot of time on it, he will probably: 1. Be doing something he loves 2. Gain experience and improve his skills 3. Expand his portfolio 4. Makes friends and connections and get valuable feedback 5. Learn what it's like to try to beat a competing product 6. Maybe fail, and learn from it 7. etc. "similar functionality has been around for a long time" That doesn't matter to a lot of people in a lot of situations. We just keep on coding. If this thread was entitled "Show HN: The new karthikv OS" or "Show HN: Introducing the Google Search killer", then yeah, spending a lot of time on that kind of thing (especially for free) might be foolish.
- _ZeD_ 14y ago
  "try to beat a competing product" ?
fiatpandas 14y ago
You should probably edit your comment a 2nd time and delete the first two sentences because they make you sound like an ass. And, you not only mock the guy, but you refer to the wrong plugin... incredible. Are you not ashamed to have such comments linked to a username which personally identifies you?
- Samuel_Michon 14y ago
  "you not only mock the guy, but you refer to the wrong plugin" Neither of those statements are true. "Are you not ashamed to have such comments linked to a username which personally identifies you?" Anything I write, I should be willing to sign with my name, otherwise it's probably not worth writing. I didn't write the comment with malicious intent, but when I saw it could be interpreted that way, I clarified it.
grey-area 14y ago
Downvoted for unnecessary snark and the non-apology in your edit (disagreement with tone is not misunderstanding). There are gentler and better ways to express this, e.g.: Have you had a look at Greasemonkey or Stylish? Because you can use greasemonkey to do the same thing doesn't make this worthless, and even if this replicated what greasemonkey does exactly (which it doesn't), it might still be an interesting take on an old problem. Reinvention is a great way to learn, and not very damaging for anyone else, so why not do it now and then? As long as you're willing to admit other versions might be better than your attempt, I see nothing wrong with it. As a good example of reinvention which actually solved a lot of real world problems, see Linux (reinventing MINIX, but eventually diverged hugely), which started thus: I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since April, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).
ThomW 14y ago
Greasemonkey kind of stinks for injecting CSS -- you get a flash of the original content before your userscript is injected into the site and it just looks bad compared to using Stylish.
- Samuel_Michon 14y ago
  I agree, I chose to mention Greasemonkey because it's been around the longest, not because it's the best. I also think the plugin he wrote serves a niche, and since writing my initial comment, I've been using it. I like it.

d0m 14y ago

No need to be a jerk about it. And, I particularly like how it makes it easy to tweak the page in real-time.

karthikksv 14y ago

Does Greasemonkey make it easy to modify styles as well? This is simple if you can insert arbitrary JS, but it'll be annoying if you need to write JS to insert CSS for every site you want to edit. I just wanted a simple way to edit CSS without having to go to my editor or a different web page, especially for sites that I visit often. Perhaps the tool I was looking for did already exist.

_ZeD_ 14y ago
Greasemonkey (+ userscript) and your plug in attack two different parts of the problems. While "my style" it's great for "live" css editing, greasemonkey+userscript have a community and shines for the "share your modification" thing. May I suggest you to get in touch with gm/us developers? It would be awesome to be able to write a custom css for a site and share it!
- randomchars 14y ago
  There's an extension called stylish, and a corresponding website [0]. [0]: http://userstyles.org/ http://userstyles.org/

alphakappa 14y ago

What's your point? Maybe he did it because it was an itch he wanted to scratch. It would be more useful to critique his project and maybe offer some constructive criticism, than to offer this snark.

pseudobry 14y ago

Even if he is planning on spending a lot of time on it, he will probably: 1. Be doing something he loves 2. Gain experience and improve his skills 3. Expand his portfolio 4. Makes friends and connections and get valuable feedback 5. Learn what it's like to try to beat a competing product 6. Maybe fail, and learn from it 7. etc. "similar functionality has been around for a long time" That doesn't matter to a lot of people in a lot of situations. We just keep on coding. If this thread was entitled "Show HN: The new karthikv OS" or "Show HN: Introducing the Google Search killer", then yeah, spending a lot of time on that kind of thing (especially for free) might be foolish.

_ZeD_ 14y ago
"try to beat a competing product" ?

fiatpandas 14y ago

You should probably edit your comment a 2nd time and delete the first two sentences because they make you sound like an ass. And, you not only mock the guy, but you refer to the wrong plugin... incredible. Are you not ashamed to have such comments linked to a username which personally identifies you?

Samuel_Michon 14y ago
"you not only mock the guy, but you refer to the wrong plugin" Neither of those statements are true. "Are you not ashamed to have such comments linked to a username which personally identifies you?" Anything I write, I should be willing to sign with my name, otherwise it's probably not worth writing. I didn't write the comment with malicious intent, but when I saw it could be interpreted that way, I clarified it.

grey-area 14y ago

Downvoted for unnecessary snark and the non-apology in your edit (disagreement with tone is not misunderstanding). There are gentler and better ways to express this, e.g.: Have you had a look at Greasemonkey or Stylish? Because you can use greasemonkey to do the same thing doesn't make this worthless, and even if this replicated what greasemonkey does exactly (which it doesn't), it might still be an interesting take on an old problem. Reinvention is a great way to learn, and not very damaging for anyone else, so why not do it now and then? As long as you're willing to admit other versions might be better than your attempt, I see nothing wrong with it. As a good example of reinvention which actually solved a lot of real world problems, see Linux (reinventing MINIX, but eventually diverged hugely), which started thus: I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since April, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

ThomW 14y ago

Greasemonkey kind of stinks for injecting CSS -- you get a flash of the original content before your userscript is injected into the site and it just looks bad compared to using Stylish.

Samuel_Michon 14y ago
I agree, I chose to mention Greasemonkey because it's been around the longest, not because it's the best. I also think the plugin he wrote serves a niche, and since writing my initial comment, I've been using it. I like it.