Chickenfoot: More Than A Dominoes Game
How to write javascript right in Firefox using the Chickenfoot add-on.
3 Responses to “Chickenfoot: More Than A Dominoes Game”
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Pebbles Says:
May 29th, 2007 at 1:52 pmIsn’t this just another implementation of greasemonkey? with maybe a few added bells and whistles?
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Tim Fehlman Says:
May 29th, 2007 at 1:54 pmI don’t know enough about Javascript, Greasemonkey, and Chickenfoot to comment. Anyone out there have any info about this?
Tim
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Garvin Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 3:39 pmIn answer to Pebbles & Tim…
Before I being, I should state that though I’m a pretty advanced Javascript programmer, and a Greasemonkey power user, I’ve never used Chickfoot (yet; haven’t had time to try it out at work).
Greasemonkey is a great, great tool. I use it in some lite testing & to edit and/or supercharge individual pages. But it’s no replacement for a automated testing IDE. Also, you actually have to know quite a bit about JavaScript and the DOM to do anything nontrivial with it. The thing to keep in mind, though, is that it only deals with individual/groups of pages. There is no way to script your browser to “do this, then that, then…”
Chickenfoot is somewhere between Selenium IDE/iMacros/CoScripter and Greasemonkey in that it appears that you can do quite a few things, and you can even implement a series of actions for the browser to take. That in itself makes it worth a look-see.
But though I appreciate that they tried to dumb it down somewhat by using a superset of Javascript, I really wonder how useful this is going to be to your average non-nerd.
