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Mark Pilgrim's article, <i>Avoid Common Pitfalls in Greasemonkey</i>, is an indispensable reference for Greasemonkey script authors.
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It describes ten different "pitfalls" that many script authors fall into, both things that those already familiar with Javascript might expect to work (but do not) and other changes/limitations of the Greasemonkey script environment.
Readers will note the common theme of [[XPCNativeWrappers]] and their limitations.
 
It covers:
 
* Event Handlers
* Named Forms and Form Elements
* Custom Properties
* Iterating Collections
* scrollIntoView
* location
* Calling Remote Page Scripts
* watch
* style
 
You may read:
 
* [http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Greasemonkey_Hacks/Getting_Started#Avoid_Common_Pitfalls The entire article]
* [http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Greasemonkey_Hacks/Getting_Started#Pitfall_.231:_Auto-eval_Strings Just the pitfalls]

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