What I did was put my command into the ubiquity source, and compiled another version of xpi. I am sure this is not a good practice (also let me know if it violates any license), but my intention is to deliver my command to a small group for testing and seeking feedback.
Back a while ago, there was a discussion that ubiquity could be used to generate any firefox extension, is any progress on that direction? Thanks, Charlie On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Blair McBride <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, there are security issues in letting web pages detect > whether Ubiquity is installed. There was a recent discussion about this > here: > http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox/browse_thread/thread/782a005dcabd547c/ > > At the moment, the best you can do is: > > * Link a page to the command feed, > * Ask the users to install Ubiquity (include a link to the xpi) if they > don't see the Ubiquity subscription bar at the top of the page. > > > I wish there were a more streamlined way of doing this (that doesn't > involve security issues). > > - Blair > > > > On 21/05/09 9:34 PM, Dave Cross wrote: >> >> I'm currently doing some work for Gumtree.com the classified ads site, >> and last week I build a prototype of a Ubiquity search command for >> them (see http://dave.org.uk/ubiquity/gumtree.html). >> >> The management are pretty keen on making use of this and they'd like >> to make it as easy as possible for their users to install the command. >> But most of their users won't have Ubiquity installed, so they've >> asked me to find a way to install both Ubiquity and the gumtree >> command as easily as possible. >> >> I'm thinking of a page that contains logic something like this: >> >> If Ubiquity is installed >> Present a link to the gumtree command installation page >> Else >> Present a link to ubiquity-latest.xpi >> Wait for ubiquity to be installed and FF restarted >> Install gumtree command >> End >> >> I'm not sure to what extent some of that is feasible. Particularly the >> bit about installing Ubiquity and then (once FF has restarted) >> automatically installing a Ubiquity command. >> >> Has anyone done anything like this? Are there best practices >> documented anywhere? >> >> Also, are there any other cases where a web site is distriibuting a >> Ubiquity command for searching that site? I haven't come across any. >> It would be cool if Gumtree was the first. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dave... >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
