Belgian developer Pascal Van Hecke put together a great Greasemonkey implementation for the MIX Online prototype, “Oomph.”

Inserting lines of JavaScript automatically in any page?  That sounds like a Greasemonkey job, doesn’t it?  Strangely enough, a search for Oomph and Greasemonkey didn’t result in anything useful.  So that’s why I put this simple Greasemonkey userscript online² that does for Firefox what the IE extension does: alerting you for hCalendar and hCard microformats and making it easy to download or export them.  Install it and head over to Jon Udell’s second version of his demo page that doesn’t have the script yet, to check whether the effect is identical.

First, you have to download and install Greasemonkey. You’ll probably have to restart your browser (it should do this automatically).

Download the Oomph for Firefox .js script.  When you click “install this script,” you should receive a notification that it’s a Greasemonkey script, and you should just have to hit install.

That’s it.  Now you should be able to see the Oomph gleam when using Firefox and viewing a page with microformats.

Thanks again to Pascal for extending the project.  We really appreciate it and think he’s done a great job.