Ted Leung on the air : Dare - a web page is not an API or a platform

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2005年6月23日
Dare - a web page is not an API or a platform

[via Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life ]:

The fun with Greasemonkey has only begun. Dare reports on changes to Gmail that broke Stephen O'Grady's Greasemonkey scripts. Dare's response is:

I find this hilarious. Greasemonkey scripts work by effectively screen scrapping the website and inserting changes into the HTML. Stephen and others who are upset by Google's change are basically saying that Google should never change the HTML or URL structure of the website ever again because it breaks their scripts. Yeah, right.

Repeat after me, a web page is not an API or a platform.

I pointed out the same in the comments to this post.

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