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Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity 0.1 Author Tutorial

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Anyone with Ubiquity who visits will get a message offering them the choice of subscribing to your command.
(Screenshot of the new UI should go here[[Image:Subscribe...)png]]
If the user chooses to subscribe to a command from an untrusted source, they will get a security warning message before they can install the command. (And in Ubiquity 0.1, ALL sources are considered untrusted, so don't take it personally!) Because Ubiquity commands can execute arbitrary javascript with chrome privileges, subscribing to a command from a website means allowing that site full access to do whatever it wants to your browser. We want to make sure people understand the dangers before subscribing to commands, so we made the warning page pretty scary.
(Screenshot of the warning page should go here[[Image:Warning...)png]]
In the future, we're going to have something set up that we call a "trust network". When you try out a Ubiquity command from a website, and determine that the command is safe (or unsafe), you'll be able to leave an approval (or a warning). When your friends with Ubiquity installed visit the same site, they'll see the approval or the warning that you left. In this way, users will be able to rely on the judgement of other people they already know and trust in order to help them make decisions about whether a command is safe to install or not.
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