Two awesome features of Ubiquity are summed up here -- the distributed trust network based on your social network (using Open Social?) and subscription to commands instead of installing them as in Greasemonkey
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Karsten FroehlichUbiquity is an experimental Firefox extension that gives you a powerful new way to interact with the Web.
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Johan LarssonThe great power of Ubiquity—from a developer standpoint—is how easy it is to create commands. With only a couple of lines of Javascript, Ubiquity enables even casual web developers to drastically enhance the features of the browser. From an 8-line command
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Gyuri GrellThe great power of Ubiquity—from a developer standpoint—is how easy it is to create commands. With only a couple of lines of Javascript, Ubiquity enables even casual web developers to drastically enhance the features of the browser. From an 8-line command
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Michelle A. HoyleDeveloper tutorial for Ubiquity 0.1 covering how to develop new Ubiquity functions and commands.
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Ulrik JohanssonThe great power of Ubiquity—from a developer standpoint—is how easy it is to create commands. With only a couple of lines of Javascript, Ubiquity enables even casual web developers to drastically enhance the features of the browser. From an 8-line command
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Zulkarnain K.The great power of Ubiquity—from a developer standpoint—is how easy it is to create commands. With only a couple of lines of Javascript, Ubiquity enables even casual web developers to drastically enhance the features of the browser. From an 8-line command to insert a contact's email address in any text field, to a 50-line Twitter integration, this tutorial walks you through the process of being generative with Ubiquity.
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In the future, we're going to have something set up that we call a "trust network". When you try out a Ubiquity command from a website, and determine that the command is safe (or unsafe), you'll be able to leave an approval (or a warning). When your friends with Ubiquity installed visit the same site, they'll see the approval or the warning that you left. In this way, users will be able to rely on the judgement of other people they already know and trust in order to help them make decisions about whether a command is safe to install or not.
By the way, the reason we call it "subscribing" to a command, rather than "installing" a command, is that if the javascript file changes -- if the site owner adds new commands, removes old commands, or updates existing commands -- all users subscribed to that URL will automatically get the updates. This will be very convenient for both users and developers, but it will also introduce another type of security risk: just because you decided a command was safe at one point in time doesn't mean that the command will always remain safe. For this reason, we'll need to make sure that the trust network keeps track of when commands have been modified, and notifies users of changes that may make a command unsafe.
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Add Sticky NoteThe awesome thing about these functions is the ability to develop whole Firefox extensions (that require minimal UI) as Ubiquity plugins in lesser lines of code. You don't need to worry about chrome.manifest or install.rdf. Another added benefit is that you never have to restart your Firefox during development unless of course, you are running code on Firefox startup.
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Since Ubiquity functions can run on page load, they can act as Firefox extensions, but better!
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Steve WillerA neat Quicksilver-in-Firefox implementation that web authors can stick their commands into globally.
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Kenneth PriisholmThe great power of Ubiquity—from a developer standpoint—is how easy it is to create commands. With only a couple of lines of Javascript, Ubiquity enables even casual web developers to drastically enhance the features of the browser. From an 8-line command
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gialloporporaThe great power of Ubiquity—from a developer standpoint—is how easy it is to create commands. With only a couple of lines of Javascript, Ubiquity enables even casual web developers to drastically enhance the features of the browser. From an 8-line command to insert a contact's email address in any text field, to a 50-line Twitter integration, this tutorial walks you through the process of being generative with Ubiquity.
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