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=== Rationale === | === Rationale === | ||
While Ubiquity continues to be a successful experiment, its audience remains limited to | While Ubiquity continues to be a successful experiment, its audience remains limited to people who: | ||
* | * are willing (and brave enough) to experiment with alternative, natural language keyboard style interfaces | ||
* | * use web applications extensively for email, calendaring, document editing, online collaboration and most of their day to day tasks | ||
* | * understand that the web is a collection of data which can be remixed, mashed together, and edited by users as well as by web developers | ||
* | * are familiar with Firefox Add-Ons and willing to install Ubiquity on all their machines | ||
* know at least some basic English | |||
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However, the underlying benefits that Ubiquity offers are far more universal. All internet users perform some set of tasks regularly - and many of these tasks require the same set of steps to be taken every time. The browser should facilitate accomplishing the end-goal and help reduce the number of steps to reach that goal whenever possible. | However, the underlying benefits that Ubiquity offers are far more universal. All internet users perform some set of tasks regularly - and many of these tasks require the same set of steps to be taken every time. The browser should facilitate accomplishing the end-goal and help reduce the number of steps to reach that goal whenever possible. | ||