I'm a big fan of Ubiquity and though this may fall on deaf ears, hopefully, the community will be able to churn out improvements where Mozilla has withdrawn.
For me, Ubiquity is one of the biggest things that's happened for browsing. The video that talks about inserting maps in emails and what not, that's wonderful, really sells Ubiquity and that's a good thing. Now with the advent of Quix and other similar services, it's clear that there is indeed the market place for Ubiquity, so of course I'm disappointed about it's lack of official support. I'm someone that will often google/dict/slang/etc from the address bar as such, Ubiquity really takes that one step further. The alternative was of course to make the address bar a one-stop-shop like Google has with Chrome but I much prefer the layered model of Ubiquity, especially if we're able to provide the search results in the pop-up. Which brings me to my first issue with Ubiquity, while you're indeed able to add new 'quick searches', getting live results requires more effort which isn't such a good thing, this needs to be made easier. The second issue with Ubiquity is the UI, it looks bloated and out of place. Ubiquity needs to look like it's a part of the browser, rather than like a pop up. Also there needs to be less things turned on at the start, I ended up turning half the stuff off, things like refresh page do not need to be there. I would also like to see better bookmark support. i.e. "bookmarks tag <tagname>" to list all bookmarks tagged with <tagname>, "bookmarks <text>" list all bookmarks that feature text and "bookmarks folder <foldername>" to list all the contents of <foldername> bookmarks folder. You should also have quick access to history "history <date>" e.g. 'history yesterday' to show all sites you visited yesterday. you should also be able to refine that by appending a suffix like a site name or some uri text. That said, I do think the biggest issue is the UI, I know that Mozilla is a huge fan of making things from markup now, but I do feel a more traditional approach could do this project huge favours. The more something looks like it belongs, the more people will use it. Also I believe that Ubiquity should get a button on the toolbar to call it up. While of course it's aimed at more advanced users (well at least it's current marketing suggests that, I know that it wouldn't have taken me so long to check out if it didn't feature the phrase "command- line"). It should be accessible to total newbies, who have never used shortcuts and have no idea. I feel like this project is the future of browsing, the platform will provide an unlimited foothold to unimaginable developments, but the platform needs to be there and right now, it really isn't there yet. -- 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.
