From tim+mousehole at scarybright.org  Tue Jan 31 09:29:05 2006
From: tim+mousehole at scarybright.org (Timothy Brown)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:29:05 -0800
Subject: Mousehole
Message-ID: <0F40B364-2FBC-4507-91FD-7A320D0F278F@scarybright.org>

MouseHole is fabulous.  Kind of curious why there hasn't been wider  
press on it.  Why, is there a donation link somewhere so we can fund  
this kind of work?  MouseHole is indispensable already. :-)

Tim


From why at hobix.com  Tue Jan 31 11:29:46 2006
From: why at hobix.com (why the lucky stiff)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:29:46 -0700
Subject: Mousehole
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Timothy Brown wrote:

>MouseHole is fabulous.  Kind of curious why there hasn't been wider  
>press on it.  Why, is there a donation link somewhere so we can fund  
>this kind of work?  MouseHole is indispensable already. :-)
>  
>
Glad you like it, thanks alot.

One big problem I've faced is that many people don't find proxies to be 
very exciting.

Another problem is that I've recently stopped pressing MouseHole because 
I'm just not pleased with the current version.  Primarily the speed but 
also the way the scripts look.  I feel that I mirrored Greasemonkey 
ideas too closely.  The whole thing was an experiment and, having 
learned quite a bit, I'm pressing ahead with the 2.x series of 
MouseHole.  Here's what you can expect:

* Speed, by using Mongrel as our default web server.
* Cleaner scripting by using the Camping framework.
* Sandboxed scripts using the sandboxing code from Try Ruby.

Unfortunately, I probably won't have time to work on it until after SXSW 
and RailsConf.  Still, we've seen quick progress on all of the above and 
building a new MouseHole should be no trouble.

_why