Cross Browser Addons

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Cross Browser Addons

I'm looking to make a browser add-on as widely and easily distributable as possible.

Is there a set of wrapper addons for all the major browsers that will let me write one piece of code and it can execute in any of the environments? I don't need anything fancy, just DOM and some ajax stuff.

Something along the lines of greasemonkey for IE, FF, and Chrome would be nice.

In the same vein, is there a way to link to my script so that it prompts for an install of greasemonkey (if it isn't installed) and then leads the script?

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For IE there's Trixie or IE7Pro, there's built-in Opera support for userscripts, and for Safari there's GreaseKit, and for Chrome, you can enable user-scripts as well.

I'm not sure about auto-triggering the install of GreaseMonkey.

pib 2010-01-17 09:05:24

Wow, ok. Any scripts to do browser detection and get my users to install the right one? And any documentation on the shared subset of available features?

Paul Tarjan 2010-01-17 11:15:46

For browser detection, I'd use jQuery.browser (http://docs.jquery.com/Utilities/jQuery.browser), or you could try to parse navigator.userAgent (http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_nav_useragent.asp) yourself.The QuirksMode compatibility charts (http://www.quirksmode.org/compatibility.html) are a good source of what features of JS (and other things) are supported in various browsers.

pib 2010-01-17 17:10:54

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