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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In Depth

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 of cmd.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 the feed 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

Nouns

added

  • noun_type_skin
  • noun_type_extension

changed

jQuery

1.4.2

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".