Posts Tagged ‘Ubiquity


Today Mozilla Labs is releasing a preview of the next major version of Ubiquity. Ubiquity 0.5 brings a slew of new features like localization and more natural command names (along with the inevitable new bugs). Before we release Ubiquity 0.5 proper, we first need your feedback on the new features and your help with testing and finding bugs.

Download the extension here. Works in Firefox 3.0 and 3.5.

The First International Ubiquity

The new language options on the Ubiquity settings page

The new language options on the Ubiquity settings page

Ubiquity is an experiment in natural-language interfaces, but “natural language” doesn’t [...]

As a user experience exploration, Ubiquity has been incredibly successful. Over a million downloads have highlighted the need for the web to be connected more tightly with by the power of task-based interfaces. Due to the passion of users, the user tutorial has been translated into ten languages. Similarly, the thousands of commands written for Ubiquity illustrate a latent desire to be able to write tiny amounts of code that enhance the web in fundamental ways.

We are currently working on bringing some of that power to Firefox. See the link for the goals and non-goals for Taskfox, [...]

Mozilla has launched Taskfox, a project which will bring much of the functionality of the popular Ubiquity add-on to its Firefox browser. But since new users find Ubiquity’s text-based commands too difficult to grasp, Taskfox will simplify things a bit.

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Ubiquity est ce
projet des laboratoire Mozilla pour essayer de renouveler l’interface en
proposant aux internautes d’effectuer des actions en tapant des commandes dans
un langage relativement naturel.

Créer de nouvelles commandes est très simple, à la portée de n’importe qui
ayant quelques notions de JavaScript. Comme Ubiquity n’en est qu’à ses
balbutiements, et va sans doute évoluer rapidement, plutôt que de tenter une
traduction de la documentation,
qui risque d’être bientôt obsolete, je vais essayer de présenter rapidement les
bases pour vous permettre de commencer à [...]

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