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jQuery and GreaseMonkey

jQuery is a fantastic piece of JavaScript and is fast replacing prototype in my projects. I’d like it to go beyond that though. I want it to be a library I can call on any website I am visiting, whether the site has it loaded or not.

GreaseMonkey seems the logical way to do this. I had a quick stab at loading jQuery as a user script but it didn’t seem to work.

Anybody got a clue how to do this?

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David Stone 2 years ago 1 point
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Same trick we use in CPhog:

var theScript = document.createElement("script");
theScript.src = "http://jquery.com/src/latest.js";
theScript.language = "javascript";
document.body.insertBefore(theScript, document.body.firstChild);

:)

I even opened up Firebug to try it out...it works. :)

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Jörn 2 years ago 1 point
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Hey David,

> theScript.src = “http://jquery.com/src/latest.js”;

including jQuery directly from John's server is something you should avoid. Though it was recommened in the jQuery tutorial, it could produce quite a lot of traffic and therefore costs for John.

On the other hand, it should be no problem to simply include a local copy of jQuery. AFAIK the "lastest" version isn't currently updated anymore.

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David Stone 2 years ago 1 point
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Yeah. That's actually a better idea. It was kinda late last night when I wrote that. ;)

Another thing that breaks-ish is that if you include all sites with that user script, then secure sites won't be marked as secure because some items aren't secured.

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Blair Mitchelmore 2 years ago 1 point
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Or you could roll your own greasemonkey xpi with jquery added in. then you could reference it through the chrome:// interface afforded to firefox. Same technique you just don't have to rely on the jquery server.

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http://offput.ca

Blair Mitchelmore 2 years ago 1 point
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Or... (duh) put a copy of jQuery inside a greasemonkey script set to run on all pages...

Install the user script and you're set...

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Paul Watson 2 years ago 1 point
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I tried that out Blair and it didn't work. Is there a special trick to getting it to work?

Good idea on the XPI though, I'll give that a bash and save the servers.

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Blair Mitchelmore 2 years ago 1 point
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In case you didn't get around to xpi fiddling, I just modified a greamonkey xpi to include a copy of jquery. I don't know if it works but I'll host it at http://jquery.offput.ca/greasemonkey-0.6.4-fx.xpi for anyone willing to try.

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