Posts Tagged ‘ubiquity’
Announcing Ubiquity 0.5
Today Mozilla Labs is happy to announce the release a major upgrade to Ubiquity. This release, Ubiquity 0.5, focuses on making the instructions you give to Ubiquity feel more natural and human, as well as bringing Ubiquity’s power to many more languages. This release brings: [...]
Ubiquity 0.5 Preview Release
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 [...]
Ubiquity 0.5: Call for Participation
Labs is working on a new release of Ubiquity, tentatively scheduled for mid-June. It’s a fairly major update with a lot of changes and new features; major enough to deserve to be called Ubiquity 0.5. The main goals for Ubiquity 0.5 are as follows: Make [...]
Taskfox Prototype: Ubiquity in Firefox
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 [...]
Ubiquity internationalization blogging roundup
There has been a lot of good discussion lately about the problem of internationalizing Ubiquity’s command-line interface. Because the CLI has notions about natural-language grammar embedded in it, localizing the interface to another language is not just a matter of substituting strings. It will require [...]
Ubiquity 0.1.6 and Release Scheduling
As we’ve mentioned before, Ubiquity 0.2 has fairly broad, visionary goals that won’t be fully satisfied for some time. So we’re going to be pushing its changes to the 0.1 line at more regular intervals as we continue to develop it. By “pushing its changes” [...]
Ubiquity’s Python Feed Plugin
A few weeks ago I wrote about Ubiquity Feed Plugins, which are basically just a way of separating the user interface of subscribing to a new feature from the implementation of the feature itself. As I’ve written about before, one of the things I’ve missed [...]
Ubiquity Parser Documentation
We’ve just added a page of documentation about the Ubiquity parser to the Mozilla wiki. It explains the algorithms used, with lots of examples and links to particular functions in the source code. It will be of interest to anyone who wants to hack on [...]
Major Ubiquity Update
We are proud to announce Ubiquity 0.1.5. Since the last major update, Ubiquity has gained a sleeker look and a smarter, more stable core. Ubiquity has also gained the ability to be skinned: anyone who knows how to write standards-complaint CSS can now create and [...]
Introducing Ubiquity
An experiment into connecting the Web with language. It Doesn’t Have to be This Way You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You’d like to include a map. Today, [...]
