I’m getting into Greasemonkey; a very handy extension for Firefox. It allows you to write scripts that manipulate web pages on the client side. Don’t like the way a given site lays out its content? Change how it looks on your browser by writing a script to modify the page’s DOM structure.
I’ve written my first Greasemonkey script and it was for our world-wide support forum at work. For whatever reason, the UBB forum software uses a style sheet that renders unreadably small text in Firefox (but is fine with Internet Explorer) when it displays code snippets that users post. My script simply enlarges the text of any code snippets posted on the forum, resulting in far less eye strain for our users and ourselves. Now I’m trying to think of other Greasemonkey scripts that I can write for other Web sites. Hmmmm.
