{"id":701,"date":"2009-01-14T10:41:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/?p=701"},"modified":"2009-01-14T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T18:41:02","slug":"major-ubiquity-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/01\/major-ubiquity-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Ubiquity Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce Ubiquity 0.1.5. Since the last major update, Ubiquity has gained a sleeker look and a smarter, more stable core. Ubiquity has also gained the ability to be skinned: anyone who knows how to write standards-complaint CSS can now create and share a custom Ubiquity skin.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/azaraskin\/3102547965\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin-left: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3111\/3183425862_d17cd51114_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Beautiful<\/strong>: Ubiquity has a new look that increases its visual simplicity and lays the groundwork for full keyboard access.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Skinnable<\/strong>: Anyone can now give Ubiquity a new look. It&#8217;s as simple as <a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Ubiquity\/Skins\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Ubiquity\/Skins\/\">a little bit of CSS<\/a>. That&#8217;s how the new look was created! Once you&#8217;ve created a skin, it&#8217;s easy to <a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Ubiquity\/Skins\/#Sharing\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Ubiquity\/Skins\/#Sharing\">share it<\/a> with the world: you can subscribe to skins just like you can subscribe to commands.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Speed<\/strong>: Ubiquity is now much snappier.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stability<\/strong>: This is the most reliable Ubiquity yet, with much of its internals refactored.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Relevancy<\/strong>: Ubiquity now makes it easier to issue the commands you want. It remembers the commands you use \u2014 using the same technology that powers the Awesome Bar \u2014 as well as matching anywhere in a command name.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Deprecated_and_Backwards-incompatible_Changes\"><\/a><a name=\"Download_It\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Download It <\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you already have Ubiquity, it will automatically update itself soon (if you are feeling impatient, you can also go to the add-ons manager and click &#8220;Find Updates&#8221;). If you don&#8217;t already have Ubiquity installed, you can get the latest version <a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/ubiquity.mozilla.com\/xpi\/ubiquity-latest.xpi\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ubiquity.mozilla.com\/xpi\/ubiquity-latest.xpi\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Thanks\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\">More Commands and More Documentation<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Want to find more Ubiquity commands? Thousands have been written. You can find them at the <a id=\"he7v\" title=\"Ubiquity Herd\" href=\"http:\/\/ubiquity.mozilla.com\/herd\/\">Ubiquity Herd<\/a>, as well as conveniently categorized <a id=\"yy82\" title=\"on this wiki page\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Ubiquity\/Commands_In_The_Wild\">on this wiki page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to write your own commands, take a look at the <a id=\"h0c5\" title=\"author tutorial\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Ubiquity\/Ubiquity_0.1_Author_Tutorial\">author tutorial<\/a>. We&#8217;ve also added much better <a id=\"puj2\" title=\"command API documentation\" href=\"http:\/\/hg.toolness.com\/ubiquity-firefox\/raw-file\/tip\/ubiquity\/index.html\">command API documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\">What&#8217;s Next?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We are currently hard at work on <a id=\"ajmm\" title=\"Ubiquity 0.2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.azarask.in\/blog\/post\/whats-up-with-ubiquity-02\/\">Ubiquity 0.2<\/a>, which is due out soon. You can get the <a id=\"ubw6\" title=\"latest beta here\" href=\"https:\/\/ubiquity.mozilla.com\/xpi\/ubiquity-latest-beta.xpi\">latest beta here<\/a>. We are also currently working towards a <a id=\"uzgx\" title=\"mouse-based edition of Firefo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.azarask.in\/blog\/post\/can-ubiquity-be-used-only-with-the-mouse\/\">mouse-based edition of Ubiquity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\">Thanks <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/labs.toolness.com\/trac\/query?status=closed&amp;group=owner&amp;order=priority&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=owner&amp;col=type&amp;col=priority&amp;col=component&amp;col=reporter&amp;milestone=Ubiquity+0.1.3%3A+Lexivore\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/labs.toolness.com\/trac\/query?status=closed&amp;group=owner&amp;order=priority&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=owner&amp;col=type&amp;col=priority&amp;col=component&amp;col=reporter&amp;milestone=Ubiquity+0.1.3%3A+Lexivore\">Many people<\/a> contributed to the code found in Ubiquity 0.1.5. The team particularly wants to thank <a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.yatriksolanki.com\/?p=6\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yatriksolanki.com\/?p=6\">Yatrik Solanki<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/abcdefu.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/23\/ugly-ubiquity\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/abcdefu.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/23\/ugly-ubiquity\/\">Abimanyu Raja<\/a>,\u00a0and Stephen Horlander for their work on envisioning and creating the skinning functionality and skins. Thanks also go to Zach Lym for his ongoing work on <a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indolering.com\/indolering.com\/Ubiquity_Blog\/Ubiquity_Blog.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indolering.com\/indolering.com\/Ubiquity_Blog\/Ubiquity_Blog.html\">Ubiquity user testing<\/a>, and Fernando Takai for his outstanding contributions as a community catalyst.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\">Get Involved <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a id=\"awkm\" title=\"Home page\" href=\"http:\/\/ubiquity.mozilla.com\/\">Home page<\/a>, <a id=\"ue2a\" title=\"News\" href=\"http:\/\/ubiquity.mozilla.com\/planet\">Ubiquity News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.toolness.com\/trac\/newticket\">Report a Bug<\/a>, <a id=\"r8bf\" title=\"Source\" href=\"http:\/\/hg.toolness.com\/ubiquity-firefox\/\">Source Code<\/a>, <a id=\"s45e\" title=\"Mailing List\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/ubiquity-firefox\">Mailing List<\/a>, <a href=\"6697\/%23labs\">IRC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are also currently doing an open-process redesign of the Ubiquity logo. Help <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azarask.in\/blog\/post\/new-ubiquity-logo-round-2\/\">decide what it should be<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce Ubiquity 0.1.5. Since the last major update, Ubiquity has gained a sleeker look and a smarter, more stable core. Ubiquity has also gained the ability to be skinned: anyone who knows how to write standards-complaint &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/01\/major-ubiquity-update\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4863,529],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}