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It looks like BabelExt is missing functions for handling userscripts the way GreaseMonkey did.

The way I see it, this could best be accomplished, in an appropriately DIY fashion, by providing:

• A function that takes a string (or something that implements its interface like Node's Buffer), finds the first metadata block (or all? pretty sure successive blocks are ignored), and returns a JS Object with the "@keys" converted to properties of the object, with strings as values (or arrays of strings when there is more than one instance of a key such as @require). This function can then be used by eg. a build script that reads all files, then outputs a "userscripts.json" that will be read in at runtime to determine which scripts to include.
• A function for reading the extension's files (per the above note about using a "userscripts.json").
• A function that takes an object with keys of userscript filenames, and values of the parsed metadata block objects, and then loads the userscripts based on their metadata. This includes per-browser functions (which could be surfaced to the BabelExt API) that add a script (from the extension or from the Internet via @require) in a new context (eg. XPCNativeWrapper in FF, with access to unsafeWindow) either before or after pageload. It can also insert https://github.com/honestbleeps/BabelExt/blob/master/lib/extension.js#L44-51 and/or extension API functions based on @grant.

Any plans to expand to the dreaded IE?

Hi,
Can anyone tell me how can I create .crx file for chrome to distribute the extension?

Thanks
Raf

var BabelExt = (function() {
  // define private variables here...
  var instance   = this;

  instance.detectedBrowser = '';

Here why do you use this? I know browsers all have some kind of sandbox and you can access the real window this way, but then I browse your code and can't find anything relies on window, so why not use var instance = {}; ?

It looks like RES is one of the preview Edge extensions. Was this updated to support Edge or was that a new implementation?

I'd love this feature. I could have fun with it. This would have to include hooks so I could run things when the icon was clicked and also to update the icon as I needed.

For me, BabelExt and the "Kitchen Sink Demo" works in Chrome, but under cfx run (Firefox 29) I see no page modifications on http://babelext.com/sink.html. Seems the add-on is not running, although cfx/Firefox lists it under Add-Ons.
Is it the URL selector in main.js ("*.babelext.com" vs bare "babelext.com")? - dunno.

Just another note: the makelinks.sh script only works (on Ubuntu) with the shebang #!/bin/bash.

refresh theis page

Example added to extension.js:

          BabelExt.xhr({
            method: "GET",
            url: 'http://www.babelext.com/',
            onload: function(response) {
              alert("YEAH!");
            }
          });

Error in safari console:
DataCloneError: DOM Exception 25: An object could not be cloned.

Safari version: 8.0.2 (10600.2.5)

First of all, i think the demo may need some updating. After loading the extension, chrome states that i need to set the manifest_version

and after doing that I see this next

i'm not sure what the second screenshot means, i don't thin the backgroiund.html is loading because of that.

Is the project dead? I was hoping this would keep being developed...

Firstly, extensions cannot be installed directly from a site anymore.

Second, even loading it as unpacked from a folder it doesnt do anything on: http://babelext.com/sink.html

Chrome Version 27.0.1453.110, tested on Linux 32-bit

I'd love to add a link to the context menu.