Glad you asked! Introducing Jetpack, Ubiquity's extension cousin: https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/
As for licensing, be sure to read http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ On May 21, 10:36 am, Changliang Xu <[email protected]> wrote: > What I did was put my command into the ubiquity source, and compiled > another version of xpi. I am sure this is not a good practice (also > let me know if it violates any license), but my intention is to > deliver my command to a small group for testing and seeking feedback. > > Back a while ago, there was a discussion that ubiquity could be used > to generate any firefox extension, is any progress on that direction? > > Thanks, > Charlie > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Blair McBride <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Unfortunately, there are security issues in letting web pages detect > > whether Ubiquity is installed. There was a recent discussion about this > > here: > >http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox/browse_thread/thread/... > > > At the moment, the best you can do is: > > > * Link a page to the command feed, > > * Ask the users to install Ubiquity (include a link to the xpi) if they > > don't see the Ubiquity subscription bar at the top of the page. > > > I wish there were a more streamlined way of doing this (that doesn't > > involve security issues). > > > - Blair > > > On 21/05/09 9:34 PM, Dave Cross wrote: > > >> I'm currently doing some work for Gumtree.com the classified ads site, > >> and last week I build a prototype of a Ubiquity search command for > >> them (seehttp://dave.org.uk/ubiquity/gumtree.html). > > >> The management are pretty keen on making use of this and they'd like > >> to make it as easy as possible for their users to install the command. > >> But most of their users won't have Ubiquity installed, so they've > >> asked me to find a way to install both Ubiquity and the gumtree > >> command as easily as possible. > > >> I'm thinking of a page that contains logic something like this: > > >> If Ubiquity is installed > >> Present a link to the gumtree command installation page > >> Else > >> Present a link to ubiquity-latest.xpi > >> Wait for ubiquity to be installed and FF restarted > >> Install gumtree command > >> End > > >> I'm not sure to what extent some of that is feasible. Particularly the > >> bit about installing Ubiquity and then (once FF has restarted) > >> automatically installing a Ubiquity command. > > >> Has anyone done anything like this? Are there best practices > >> documented anywhere? > > >> Also, are there any other cases where a web site is distriibuting a > >> Ubiquity command for searching that site? I haven't come across any. > >> It would be cool if Gumtree was the first. > > >> Cheers, > > >> Dave... > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
