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→Insert Email: Commands with Specific Argument Types
To try this out, Ubiq "insert email for " and then the first few letters of someone you email often.
=== Shorter Argument Declarations === Notice that we used a shortcut for declaring the arguments. In the long form, we would have had to say: <pre> arguments: [{role: "modifier", nountype: noun_type_contact, label: "contact"}]</pre> but if we don't care about specifying a label for the argument, we can get away with using a single object for "arguments", with the roles as the property names, and the nountypes as the property values: <pre> arguments: {modifier: noun_type_contact}</pre> If we had several arguments, and none of them needed labels, we could say: <pre> arguments: {object: noun_arb_text, modifier: noun_type_contact}</pre> and so on. Aza writes: <pre>This one command sums up what I love about Ubiquity. In 8 lines of code, I can fundamentally enhance the browser's functionality. Doing the same thing using a normal Firefox extension methodology takes pages and pages of code—and the interface would take more thought still. Doing the same thing using a bookmarklet would require a server-side component (to get around cross-site Ajax request ban) as well as forcing the user to give up their email password.
Ubiquity increases the surface area of innovation for the browser many-fold, by making anyone who can write simple Javascript into an agent for bettering the browser and the open Web.
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== TinyURL: Network Calls and jQuery ==
