Goodbye to GreasemonkIE
I have to kill this project. I have no time to work on it, and I can't open the source, so I'm going to let it die. The concepts behind GreasemonkIE are not novel (considering it's a "port" of Greasemonkey), and building a managed BHO is well-documented already. Joe's Apt has a good set of links on this topic, most of which I found independently to help me build a managed BHO. If you're interested in building your own managed BHOs, those links are an excellent place to start.
Hopefully some other enterprising developer can make user scripts for IE a reality, but unfortunately that developer cannot be me.
Posted by Todd at April 9, 2005 5:21 PM-08:00
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Very sorry to hear about this! The important thing is you gave it a shot.
I had been kicking around the IE7-as-a-BHO idea for the past few months. Between Dean Edwards' words of encouragement and your announcement of GreasemonkIE, I was finally convinced it was worth pursuing, so my thanks to you for blazing a trail!
Should my IE7/BHO efforts pan out over the coming months, and I can manage to work Greasemonkey into it, I will do so without hesitation. If someone else pulls it off sooner, I'll cheer them on as well.
Posted by: Joe D'Andrea at April 10, 2005 10:22 AM
I think that's a shame Todd.
Any chance you can publish the source code somewhere so that someone else can take this on? You can mail it to me if you want...
Posted by: Dean Edwards at April 10, 2005 10:41 AM
Dean, I'm sorry that I won't be able to open the code, but all of the concepts behind it are easily available. I've already pointed to Joe's blog, which has a bunch of nice links for building managed BHOs. The only real "Ah-ha!"-worthy concept is using ITHMLWindow2's execScript() method on IHTMLDocument2.parentWindow from OnDocumentComplete's IWebBrowser2 object to inject the scripts. However, that's well-documented on MSDN, so using a method designed to inject scripts to actually inject scripts is pretty obvious :). Everything else is simple plumbing.
Posted by: Todd at April 10, 2005 12:57 PM
Why will you not be able to release the source? Did you receive a "cease and desist"?
Posted by: Bart at April 14, 2005 2:07 PM
Damn! Seems like I arrived at the party too late. Hopefully someone will pick this up and take it a bit further. In the meantime I'm hoping I can find this msi install somewhere...
Posted by: Jon at April 18, 2005 4:29 AM
Damn shame - I had high hopes...
Looks like there's a recently released alternative to watch, though:
Posted by: Michael at June 2, 2005 11:09 PM