On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Aaron Boodman <a...@google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Alec Burgess <burn...@rogers.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Aaron - that was it - worked fine (after close and then reopen of
>> Chrome).
>
> Great, I'm glad to hear that.
>
>> Question:
>> Are the Greasemonkey include and exclude directives (eg: "// @include
>> http://images.google.*/*";) just comments when processed by Chrome ie. the
>> resulting Chrome script could get applied if another web-page happened to
>> meet its criteria?
>
> Chrome understand the @include, @exclude syntax. It won't apply the
> user script to pages that don't match those rules.
>
>> Also, is there an easy way to "eyeball" my other installed firefox
>> GM-scripts and determine whether they are likely to work in Chrome "as is"?
>
> If the script includes the strings "GM_xmlhttpRequest",
> "unsafeWindow", or "wrappedJSObject", it *may* not work as-is.
> However, this isn't a perfect test. Some scripts that don't include
> any of these words still won't work as-is, and some scripts that
> include them *will* work as-is.
>
> It's sort of the same problem as writing cross-browser web pages. Each
> browser has its own quirks. The developer needs to test their scripts
> in all the browsers they intend to support to know for sure if they
> really work.
>
> - a
>

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