Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity 0.5.5 Release Notes
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Main Features
Ubiquity 0.5.5 introduces new features and APIs as well as fixes bugs.
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Features
- Supports up to Firefox 3.7a6pre (but no longer supports 3.0.*).
- More keys are allowed for the key combo to invoke Ubiquity.
- The help view informs feed updates. (#835)
- Toolbar button is added.
- Bundled feeds use persistent URLs (resource: instead of file:), making profiles portable. (#882)
- About pages got nicer URLs. (chrome://ubiquity/content/cmdlist.xhtml → about:ubiquity?cmdlist)
- Command Editor is now Bespin thanks to cers.
- Setting {extensions.ubiquity.openAt} to "X,Y" makes Ubiquity open at that screen coordinates. ([1])
- Clicking the highlighted suggestion executes it.
- Suggestions are mouse-scrollable.
- Non-left click on a popup menu entry opens its preview instead of executing it.
- Repeating the last command is now possible (essentially the same as Ctrl+Space → Enter, but far faster). Set a key combo for it on about:ubiquity?settings.
- Command histories are keyboard accessible.
- Ctrl+↑↓ (or mouse scroll over command entry)
- Ctrl+(Shift)+Tab completes current input from history.
- Right click on command entry or preview browser opens context menu.
Commands
new
- Built-in
- change skin
- Firefox
- view extension
- stop
- print preview
- open error console
- Developer
- unescape HTML entities
- view selection source
- jQuery API
changes
- "check calendar" shows dates correctly.
- "translate" warns for API limit and fallbacks to page translation (#854), retains the original HTML, displays the detectedSourceLanguage, and supports default/alternate language settings (#884).
- {extensions.ubiquity.translate.lang.default} : default language code to translate into
- {extensions.ubiquity.translate.lang.alt} : alternate language code to translate into if the source language equals default language
- "weather" is improved by mitcho.
- "open" acts also like awesomebar.
- "email" works again by not using the broken gmonkey API.
- "zoom" zooms the current tab.
- "highlight syntax" uses google-code-prettify.
- Many search commands got better previews.
- Text editing commands work outside of rich-edits.
Skin
Because of a security fix, the default preview URL is changed. Use:
@-moz-document url(resource://ubiquity/preview.html) {
instead of:
@-moz-document url(chrome://ubiquity/content/preview.html) {
Parser
- Dutch and German are supported.
- Changing the parser and/or parser language no longer requires restart. (#760)
- Parser 1 handles partial modifiers (#889) and verbs on end.
New APIs
Default Feed
-
_()
works outside ofcmd.execute()/cmd.preview()
. - Functions prefixed with
teardown_
are executed on refreshing/purging the feed. - Specifying
author(s)/contributor(s)/license/homepage
to feed itself is now possible. Simply assign those properties to thefeed
object as you do with command objects. - More globals:
atob btoa Audio Image DOMParser NodeFilter XMLSerializer
Ubiquity
execute() preview()
Utils
added
-
currentTab currentTabs tabs.from() tabs.length BrowserTab()
-
chromeWindows hiddenWindow
-
sort() uniq() seq() count() extend() regexp() defineLazyProperty() unescapeHtml()
-
clipboard.html clipboard.image clipboard.get() clipboard.set()
-
notify() listenOnce() parseHtml() reportError()
-
regexp.* prefs.* gist.*
changed
-
openUrlInBrowser()
conforms to {browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground} and returns the created tab or window. -
focusUrlInBrowser()
can focus across windows. -
ellipsify()
accepts plain string.
deprecated
-
trim() encodeJson() decodeJson() json
CmdUtils
added
-
CreateAlias() getCommand() executeCommand() previewCommand()
-
mixNouns()
-
isSelected getSelectedNodes() getSelectedRanges()
changed
- Some methods prefixed with get/set can be accessed as getters/setters. (
CmdUtils.getWindow() → CmdUtils.window
) -
makeSearchComand()
is improved in a number of ways. See Labs/Ubiquity/Writing_A_Search_Command. -
onPageLoad()
supports Greasemonkey style page filters. -
injectCss()/injectHtml()/injectJs()/loadJQuery()
can specify target document.
Nouns
added
- noun_type_skin
- noun_type_extension
changed
-
noun_type_url
supports Google Reader (https only).
jQuery
Bugs Fixed
- XML errors on Command List are catched and reported.
- PNG file sizes are reduced. (#888)
- XHTML feeds auto-refresh correctly. (#611)
- Noisy dumps are removed. (#897)
- Preview no longer has chrome privilege. (#714)
- {extensions.ubiquity.inputLimit} is added. (#507)
-
noun_type_url
is fixed. (was broken beyond belief) - The bug in
noun_type_percentage
is fixed, which should fix "zoom".