I’m looking at creating a new Greasemonkey script that uses jQuery throughout, more so than my previous script attempts. It’ll be geared towards Twitter, once again, and it will be combining a few of my favorite features of other scripts:
- “Endless Tweets”: This feature allows for “endless” scrolling on the main Twitter home page. No more clicking “Older Entries”, etc. Just scroll to the bottom of the page, and it will AJAX-load the next page, into the current page.
- Nested tweets: Tweets that are in response to another tweet, will be related and nested on the main Twitter page.
- Retweeting ability: A new button will be added to the right of each tweet, “Retweet”. This will allow for quick retweeting of a previous tweet.
- A common dialog box that submits AJAX posts for replies and retweeting (no more page refreshes!)
- Auto-complete of @reply names: As soon as you type an ‘@’ character in your status text, a drop down will appear with a list of all your friends. As you type, it will try and auto-complete the name with a username from your friend list.
Yes, there are other scripts that do exactly what I’m looking to do above, but, I haven’t seen any with this breadth of jQuery, plus, I want to make one myself so I’ve got more jQuery under my belt. It’s a good webdev programming exercise.
I’ll be posting my results to userscripts.org, and will post that announcement here, when it’s completed.