Installation is quick and easy, just like installing an extension. That’s because under the covers, the user script is actually converted into an extension. This means that management tasks like disabling and uninstalling work just like they do with extensions.

Also keep in mind that some user scripts won’t work in Google Chrome yet, because of differences between it and Firefox. Based on some analysis that the current maintainers of Greasemonkey did, I expect between 15%-25% of scripts to not work in Google Chrome. If you find such a script, you should consider letting the author know. There may be something he or she can do to easily fix the problem. In the meantime, we’ll keep working on bugs on our side to bring our implementation closer to Greasemonkey.

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Activate bookmark syncing on each of your computers, and Chrome will automatically synchronize any changes to your bookmarks across all your machines. It’s made possible by the magic of XMPP, which also powers Google Talk. Sound good? Go ahead and download Chrome 4.0 Beta.

This beta version of Chrome is also notable for what it leaves out: extensions support. According toStephen Shankland at CNET, Google is reworking the extensions interface for Chrome, so that feature is disabled for now. Shankland also tracked down some news on the upcoming Chrome Mac Beta. The team working on it has been instructed to fix all their high-priority bugs by the end of the week, and it looks like getting the Mac version out is near the top of Google’s to-do list.

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Advantages:

• User doesn’t have to have Flash plugin installed on their browser
• Easier to create with just a few lines of Javascript
• For page loading it just needs to load the Javascript

Disadvantages:

• Text is not selectable because it outputs it like an image. I looked at some examples, right clicked on a word and had to view as an image. Every single word had this behaviour. Big thumbs down.
• Usage for body copy will slow down loading time, so it is recommended to use only for headlines.
• Cannot be read by screen readers
• Visual looks blurry
• Not all browser compliant and still has a lot of development left to be done

sIFR

Advantages:

• Can be read by screen readers as a normal headline because it is a behaviour layer on top of the markup and styling.
• Text is selectable
• SEO friendly
• Displays text as is like any other web font. Crisp and not blurry!
• Has addons like jQuery sIFR Plugin!

Disadvantages:

• Requires Javascript to be enabled
• Flash plugin must be installed in the browser
• Need Adobe Flash Studio to create it BUT there is a pretty nifty sIFR generator that creates the file for you!
• For page loading, it has to request for Flash, Javascript and CSS files attached to it, which can potentially get bogged down if you are using sIFR in too many places.
• Cannot display on an iPhone. Yet…

Cufón (similar to Typeface.js)

Enter Cufón, the Javascript-based font replacement solution which makes heavy use of canvas and VML. This offers a great alternative to other solutions out there – no Flash or images required.

There are some issues with using Cufón on a live site, the most notable being the inability to highlight and copy/paste text, which is really the biggest issue for your site’s users.

Combine that with the EULA issues, which prevent you from being able to legally embed fonts in Javascript files for most fonts on the market today.

The other issue is knowing what fonts can be used with Cufón. For sIFR, most fonts are fair game, since the font is embedded in a Flash movie, which is typically an approved usage by most font foundries for most fonts. With Cufón, the Javascript files used for the font can be easily “stolen” and either used on another website or reverse engineered.

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Solution:
Option Compare Database
Public Function TableExists(strTable As String) As Boolean
Dim strName As String

On Error Resume Next
‘If table exists already then strName will be > “”
strName = CurrentDb.TableDefs(strTable).name
TableExists = Not (strName = “”)
End Function

Solution:

‘Define the task ID
Dim dTaskID As Integer
‘Open the file with your application
dTaskID = Shell(“applicationYouWantToOpenWith.EXE path+nameofthefile”)
‘Make it active window
AppActivate (dTaskID)