On 8/16/06, Ron Hall ron.hall@mcgill.ca wrote:
I don't know if you were soliciting comments or not, but I suspect that the first alternative is likely the most attractive - IMO, butdon't even begin to ask me how one actually builds such a beastie.
I'm definitely soliciting comments. Why is it more attractive? Consider that the user would have to install an extension. And I suspect that javascript can't do that much within an edit control. Perhaps it could replace the edit control by something different altogether? Someone correct me?
From a couple of greasemonkey scripts I wrote, I found it's pretty
easy to manipulate elements of a webpage, moving stuff around and adding new controls. But I don't think you can alter the way a button behaves, for instance - it's just a button, and you get told when it gets clicked on, released, or hovered over...but not sure how much further you can go.
Steve