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XMLHTTPRequest vs gm_XMLHTTPRequest

Posted on July 21st, 2005

I’ve updated the Flickr Photo Page Enhancer, Flickr Thumbnail Enhancer and Bloglines Continuous Update greasemonkey scripts to use plain old XMLHttpRequest instead of the GM_ API version. There was no real reason for them to use GM_XMLHttpRequest other than, well, that was the example I cribbed from. The point of all of this is that they now work with the “safe mode” Greasemonkey 0.3.5. As a happy side effect, they run noticeably faster than the old versions.

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  1. AMouraux said, on July 25th, 2005 at 10:54 am

    Cool scripts!

    Especially like the FlickrThumbnailEnhancer… One question… Would it be possible to add (or replace) the number of notes by the number of views and/or the number of times the picture was faved?

    Thanks again!

  2. jrhyley said, on July 26th, 2005 at 8:02 am

    Unfortunately, that infomration isn’t available via the Flickr API, which is where the script gets all of its info. I don’t think views or # times faved is available to anyone but the owner of the photo, actually.

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