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AxelBoldt replied on September 07, 2008 19:38 to the question "how to make a command like "email" just that it sends SMS" in Mozilla:

Writing commands (like yours) with multiple arguments is explained in the tutorial.

AxelBoldt replied on September 05, 2008 16:25 to the idea "Unit Conversion Command" in Mozilla:

My gcalc at http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axe... can convert units and much more.

AxelBoldt replied on September 05, 2008 15:59 to the problem "Defintions not appearing in Ubiquity box" in Mozilla:

The current define script uses http://services.aonaware.com/DictServ... to get wordnet definitions. Maybe that service is down sometimes; it's not ubiquity's fault.

AxelBoldt started following the idea "Make Ubiquity the Address Bar" in Mozilla.

AxelBoldt replied on September 05, 2008 15:46 to the idea "[Ubiquity] Open URL in the active tab" in Mozilla:

To close a tab press Ctrl-W.

AxelBoldt replied on September 03, 2008 17:36 to the question "How can a ubiquity script open several website in different tabs?" in Mozilla:

http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axe...
____. Works for me. And yes, I'm using 0.1.1.

Sorry, I had fixed my code in the meantime to use a hack that works. Look at the lines that are commented out; they should work but don't.

AxelBoldt replied on September 03, 2008 17:31 to the idea "Quicker choice of desired ubiquity verb" in Mozilla:

Using the tab key would definitely be useful, especially if repeated tabs cycled through all the possible completions.

But another quick fix would be that after "s<crsr><space>" the second option should stay selected rather than reverting back to the first.</space></crsr>

AxelBoldt shared an idea in Mozilla on September 02, 2008 21:07:

Easy way to open URL and change its DOM

Ubiquity should provide a convenience function which opens a URL in a new window/tab and returns a pointer to the new document. That way, a verb can change the new document's DOM to its heart's content, removing nodes, adding others, filling in text fields etc. It seems that verbs often want to do something like this, but right now it is really hard to do.

In fact, right now without this convenience function, how would you get a pointer to the new document? Maybe some method of Application? I can't find any documentation for it though.

AxelBoldt replied on September 02, 2008 16:05 to the question "How can a ubiquity script open several website in different tabs?" in Mozilla:

My code is here: http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axe...

AxelBoldt shared an idea in Mozilla on September 02, 2008 05:57:

Ubiquity should expose search and bookmark keywords

So far many of us have used search and bookmark keywords to get some of the functionality of Ubiquity, namely parametrized searches. All these keywords should be exposed through Ubiquity, so that I don't have to remember which commands to issue through Ubiquity and which through the AwsomeBar.

And maybe more radically: just merge Ubiquity and the AwsomeBar. Instead of Ctrl-Space we say Ctrl-L, done. Entering a URL is a special kind of Ubiquity command, one where the verb is implied. Same for bookmark keywords.

AxelBoldt shared an idea in Mozilla on September 02, 2008 05:36:

Quicker choice of desired ubiquity verb

"Ctrl-Space s" and you see a list of verbs starting with s. If you use the cursor key to move down to the one you want, and then hit space to continue typing, it will jump back to the first choice of the s list, which is unintuitive. How am I supposed to pick my choice?

Ideally, when I hit s and scroll down to my choice of verb, the s should automatically be extended to the full verb, with a space behind it, so that I can continue typing.

AxelBoldt asked a question in Mozilla on September 02, 2008 05:22:

How can a ubiquity script open several website in different tabs?

I want to write a Ubiquity script which launches several searches on different sites, in different tabs. I had it working with several Utils.openUrlInBrowser commands, but since 0.1.1 it doesn't work anymore. Is there some other way to do it?

AxelBoldt reported a problem in Mozilla on September 01, 2008 04:25:

Search commands don't escape properly

Ubiq "google C++". The preview is fine but if you hit enter, the pluses don't survive, and it searches for C only. The argument needs to be escaped with encodeURIComponent(). Many of the built-in commands have the same problem - escape() is not good enough. This should also be mentioned in the Author Tutorial.