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To try this out, Ubiq "insert email for " and then the first few letters of someone you email often. | To try this out, Ubiq "insert email for " and then the first few letters of someone you email often. | ||
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. | === 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. | 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. | ||
</pre> | |||
== TinyURL: Network Calls and jQuery == | == TinyURL: Network Calls and jQuery == | ||