If you are a geek, you may have heard of the Firefox extension called GreaseMonkey which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any web page to change its design or behavior. This basically enables you to remix the Web and either add features to your favorite web sites or fix broken UI design.

Earlier this week, there was a post to the Greasemonkey mailing list pointing out the existence of Turnabout. Below are some excerpts from the Turnabout website.  

What is Turnabout?

Turnabout is an Internet Explorer plugin that runs user scripts of your choice on any website. User scripts are like plugins for websites. They can enhance your web experience in a lot of ways:

• Block pop-ups
• Change text URLs into clickable links
• Add features, like adding custom search links in your Gmail account
• Enlarge text fields that are too small
• …And more!

Essentially, Turnabout does for IE what Greasemonkey does for Firefox .

So where does this leave the other recently announced Greasemonkey for Internet Explorer project, Trixie? Turnabout seems like a better bet for a couple of reasons. First of all, Turnabout doesn't require the .NET Framework like Trixie does. Secondly, Turnabout comes with source code but not with any licensing information which means it is not Open Source. Although Trixie's source code can be easily deciphered with Reflector, that technically is reverse engineering. Finally and most importantly, the developer of Trixie has stopped work on it now that Turnabout exists.

For now I'll be uninstalling Trixe and trying out Turnabout. I'm glad to see that Trixe inspired an even better project to get launched. REMIX the Web.