It definitely needs to be easier to add live results. I'm even thinking as an incentive to websites to allow live-search-results within the Ubiquity UI, Ubiquity would allow in-line text adverts. Of course said adverts would still need to be adblock-able. As I see it, a lot of sites you only go to for a quick definition or reference, to display that in Ubiquity would really be bringing the internet one step closer with a lot less effort.
On Jan 27, 11:21 am, sabret00the <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Mozilla has withdrawn.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.
