Outfox in Greasemonkey revisited
There was some traffic in the Outfox group about my GMail announcer userscript failing in Outfox 0.3.x. The Outfox API has improved quite a bit since 0.1.0, so it's no surprise my script no longer works.
Here's a new example script that does work with the latest Outfox 0.3.5 release. Instead of polluting the example with all the complications of navigating the GMail DOM, I've picked a much simpler target. This script simply speaks the number of major sections (level 2 headings) in a Wikipedia article when the page loads. It's not as sexy, but the code is much easier to understand.
To try this script, make sure you have the Greasemonkey 0.8 and Outfox 0.3.5 extensions installed on Firefox 3.0 or 3.5. Then visit the following link to have GM install the script: citation_announcer.user.js.
// ==UserScript== // @name Sections count // @namespace http://www.mindtrove.info/ // @description Speaks the number of h2 sections in a Wikipedia article // @include http://*.wikipedia.org/wiki/* // @require http://www.json.org/json2.js // @require http://outfox.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/js/outfox.js // ==/UserScript== // number of major sections var sections = 0; function onOutfoxAudioInit(response) { // say the number of main sections outfox.audio.say(sections + ' main sections'); // return the parameter for other outfox deferred callbacks return response; } function onOutfoxInit(version) { var content = document.getElementById('bodyContent'); // count the number of main sections sections = content.getElementsByTagName('h2').length; // take one back for the TOC heading if it's present if(document.getElementById('toc')) { --sections; } // start the outfox audio service var def = outfox.startService('audio'); def.addCallback(onOutfoxAudioInit); // return the parameter for other outfox deferred callbacks return version; } function onDOMContentLoaded() { // create a node for outfox use var div = document.createElement('div'); document.body.appendChild(div); // initialize outfox var def = outfox.init(div, JSON.stringify, JSON.parse); def.addCallback(onOutfoxInit); } // this event triggers execution of the GM script onDOMContentLoaded();