Writing your first Greasemonkey script – adding menus to Facebook’s top menu

This post will show you how to write a basic Greasemonkey script that will add two more menu items to Facebook’s friends top menu as shown below.

These 2 menu items are :

“Recently Updated” – show all your friends with recent updates
“Status Updates” – show the latest status updates of your friends

About Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is a Firefox [...]

Expanding/collapsing javascript menu

In this post I’ll show you how to create an expanding/collapsing menu like Slashdot left menu used to be, using the YUI library and Dav Glass YUI effects widget.
Preview of the script we are going to build.

YUI-based numeric stepper widget

Since I had some problems with YUI slider, I decided to write a YUI-based numeric stepper that allows users to select values within a predefined range.

Simple YUI Cookie example – javascript text magnifier for your page

Since YUI 2.5.0 there’s the Cookie utility and at this time of posting, it’s still in beta version.
I’ll show you how we can use this simple utility to write a small javascript app.
The piece of code we will be writing, using the YUI library (my favorite), will allow users to increase/decrease their font size for [...]