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By: Justin Blanton | Ubiquity cracks open personal mashup tinkering

Justin Blanton | Ubiquity cracks open personal mashup tinkering — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:37:06 +0000

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By: Blair McBride

Blair McBride — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:50:12 +0000

I recommend against using getDocumentInsecure() - its got "Insecure" in its name for a reason! Instead, you should use:

Application.activeWindow.activeTab.uri.spec

By: Abi

Abi — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:50:23 +0000

Your blog seems to be rejecting code (that's why I had so many posts in the first place). You can get the current page url using (with dots):

CmdUtils getDocumentInsecure() location href

By: l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:17:37 +0000

@Abi: Making this a built-in command is totally fine by me! It can use more work, though, for sure.

Also, I can reproduce that bug. Ugh. I can't find any methods in the CmdUtils to get the current page URL, though. I'll keep poking a bit though.

By: 0xDECAFBAD » Writing a Delicious command for Ubiquity

0xDECAFBAD » Writing a Delicious command for Ubiquity — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:37:15 +0000

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By: Abi

Abi — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:51:20 +0000

I noticed a bug in your command. If I select some text in the awesomebar, the bookmark url is chrome. You should use something the command utils to get the url, instead.

By: Abi

Abi — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:45:59 +0000

But otherwise, I really like your command especially the preivew. We should include it as a builtin command, if you don't mind. :)

By: Abi

Abi — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:33:24 +0000

Nice post. I share your sentiment with regards to Ubiquity commands. A lot of commands that I see are just plain simple searches. I hope developers will work on more interesting things. For example, even things like auto-form filling for this comment (possibly even on page load without having to type a command) could be done by Ubiquity. There’s still a lot more room for experimentation.

By: l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:43:39 +0000

@Raul: "share-to-delicious" is long, but keep in mind is that you only need to type enough of the command to disambiguate it. That is, all I type is "sh this tagged osx software apple" because I have no other commands starting with "sh". Watch the list of commands in the preview as you type. Those tell you what the parser thinks of what you're typing as you type. It's like automatic tab-completion.

Also, I think there's work planned to put some usage based sorting into the command parser, preferring the commands you use most in order of disambiguation.

By: Raul

Raul — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:20:58 +0000

Hi, was using the original delicious command linked from the Ubiquity wiki, just tried yours and its definitely more polished and functional. Great job with the preview and the extra functionality. Only thing is ’share-to-delicious’ is too much to type so I unsubscribed the previous command and changed the namespace in yours. This is clearly going to become a problems as the commands proliferate.