My initial though is that it certainly appears to allow a far faster way of getting where you want to be. I will give it a whirl for a wee while. I only installed Firefox 3 on this laptop this week so I am still getting used to the enhancements it brings to browsing the web. We shall see. Have you had a look at it yet?
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Ubiquity add on for Firefox
My son pointed this add-on for Mozilla Firefox to me. It's a bit of an experiment with thinking about different ways of interacting with the interface. You can find it here . There is a tutorial to help getting you started here .The main idea appears to be about starting to type commands whilst browsing the web. For example, I typed to bring up the Ubiquity window and then typed W Glasgow in order to get a weather forecast for Glasgow. I don't think I could do a similar task any more quickly any other way.
My initial though is that it certainly appears to allow a far faster way of getting where you want to be. I will give it a whirl for a wee while. I only installed Firefox 3 on this laptop this week so I am still getting used to the enhancements it brings to browsing the web. We shall see. Have you had a look at it yet?
My initial though is that it certainly appears to allow a far faster way of getting where you want to be. I will give it a whirl for a wee while. I only installed Firefox 3 on this laptop this week so I am still getting used to the enhancements it brings to browsing the web. We shall see. Have you had a look at it yet?
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I've not seen it yet, but it looks interesting Gordon, thanks.
Souds a little like quicksilver a mac app, launcher - script - command runner that seems to know what you are thinking.
Interesting. We have gone from hard to use command line interfaces to menu systems than GUIs and the... back to command line again. :-)
If a variation of the old Higher Computing was still being taught, this would make a great HCI case study.
P.S I seem to have a problem typing the word "then" - can Ubiquity help me there? :-)
Glad it's not just me that goes in for these things...now if only there was a way to combine it with quicksilver, I'd be a happy man with only one keyboard shortcut...
You might also like this Mozilla project on some future browser concepts.
David is right. It's a really interesting study in the HCI.
It's a bit like returning to a command line interface but has a lot of the strength of a graphical user interface as well.
The different levels of language that we use when interacting with the computer are interesting. I guess what this does it to provide another set of choices as we interact.
This sounds a great deal like Yubnub - you should take a look at this if you find the you're enjoying your return to the command line!
Yubnub
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