PUBLIC MARKS from fastclemmy with tag edit

Platypus is a Firefox extension which lets you modify a Web page from your browser -- "What You See Is What You Get" -- and then save those changes as a Greasemonkey script so that they'll be repeated the next time you visit the page. Editing pages to suit your needs is dandy -- but making those changes "permanent" is the real payoff.

Edit in place (also called in-place editing) follows the axiom Alan Cooper calls "allow input wherever you have output". The combobox – a form element unfortunately absent from HTML – demonstrates this. In the same place where the current selection is displayed, the user can enter a value directly.