Introducing Ubiquity (412)
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An experiment into connecting the Web with language. It Doesn’t Have to be This Way You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You’d like to include a map. Today, this involves the disjointed tasks of message composition on a web-mail service, mapping the address on a map site, searching for reviews on the restaurant on a search engine, and ...
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lishevita said:
This is very cool. I'm totally excited about this, and I'd love to see what this will do in the future on mobile platforms. Be sure to watch the video.
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Beemer said:
Awesome concept by mozilla...it will definitely change the way we interact with the web...have a read and look at the video.
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Sjoerd Visscher said:
Yubnub on steroids!
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Brent said:
Just playing with this thing this afternoon. So far, pretty cool.
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Jon Winstanley said:
Nice new browser innovation
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Walter DeFoor said:
Holy crap this is amazing.
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baber said:
Got this itro from my friend Atul, cool stuff about ubiquity and about time.
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Ryan said:
very interesting. kind of like executer or launchy for firefox
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Yann Dìnendal said:
Wah ! Regardez la vidéo, ça a l'air énorme !
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Juan Diego said:
Mencionado en:- http://www.davidgp.com/2008/08/27/ubiquity-para-firefox/- http://alt1040.com/2008/08/ubiquity-para-que-la-web-desconectada-este-mas-conectada/- http://www.enriquedans.com/2008/08/ubiquity-visualizando-tendencias-en-el-uso-de-la-web.htmlEn ninguno de los tres he entendido qué es Ubiquity, en realidad. Se dice que está muy bien y que hay que ver el vídeo.Y como aún no he visto el vídeo... :)Actualización:Ya he visto el vídeo. Parece que sí, que puede ser interesante. ¿Por qué? Para qué te lo voy a contar si puedes ver el vídeo tú mismo, jeje.
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Eddie said:
i've wanted something like this for a while now, if only for a command line interface to the web. yubnub is too slow, and is often down. firefox smart keywords are ok but require an extra bounce and extra (server-side) coding if i want to do anything fancy.
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ryan.capote said:
This is really cool, watch the video!
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Pradeep said:
Awesome!Have been playing with it since yesterday evening. It is most certainly the Quicksilver (http://bit.ly/1XVYsZ) of the web. And they seem to be intent on revolutionizing the way we access the web. (Also, check out Adaptive Path's video for Mozilla Labs' concept web series: http://adaptivepath.com/aurora/)Install (https://people.mozilla.com/~avarma/ubiquity-0.1.xpi) and type "command-list" to get the complete list of built-in commands.Or ubiq "command-editor" and build your own commands. May be something to 'select a text, add a note and post-to-reader'!It's also possible to embed Ubiquity commands in webpages. How will the web react? Think of the possibilities for a frequent user on a massive destination like Amazon or Yahoo!They admit that the whole thing is "messy" and "cluttered" (sample: hyphenated commands) but I can firmly say that they are heading in the right direction.Hmmm...now, about the lost mojo...[http://bit.ly/3xtnj7]
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g9yuayon said:
Super cool command line
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WebFlint said:
super cool
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Ooble said:
ZOMGWOW.This should make anyone switch to Firefox. Watch the video.
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brianwyrick said:
hot.
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Malcolm said:
Web 3.0 right here
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wyclif said:
I'm finding this very useful.
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Giacomo Rizzo said:
Molto, molto interessante...
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Betula said:
this is too cool! a command launchy in firefox
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Dean said:
A command line for the Internet! I love it.
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Ihar Mahaniok said:
Wow!Check out the video.This is the first thing in quite a long time that really impresses me.This will increase productivity, definitely.
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Cameron said:
This is awesome, its like Quiksilver/Launchy for the web!
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Johan Lopes said:
taking web browsing to the next level
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Geoffrey Wiseman said:
Looks interesting; would like to see where this goes.
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Erik Arvidsson said:
This looks really cool. I wonder how useful it will be in practice?
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Jonny M said:
wow, folks like this are amazingly smart...
TraceMonkey: JavaScript Lightspeed (25)
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I'm extremely pleased to announce the launch of TraceMonkey, an evolution of Firefox's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for Firefox 3.1 that uses a new kind of Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler to boost JS performance by an order of magnitude or more. Results Let's cut straight to the charts. Here are the popular SunSpider macro- and micro-benchmarks average scores, plus results for an image manipulation benchmark and a test using the Sylvester 3D JS library's matrix multiplication methods: ...
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Sean Leather said:
It's comforting to know that Firefox will continue getting faster. FF 3 was a wonderful surprise! FF 3.1 will have a JIT compiler for JavaScript. Note that it must be explicitly enabled.
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Sebastian Werner said:
Whooohoo. That's great news. Hopefully the Microsoft team will improve IE8 as well for JavaScript in order of this magnitude.
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Dom Derrien said:
With that initial reported improvement, I can't wait seeing the overall update in action (DOM handling especially).
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past said:
At last, JITed JavaScript:
See Tiger Woods actually make the Jesus Shot (34)
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Filed under: Sports, VideoThere are really only two ways of handling a glitch. Fix it in a patch or convince everyone who experienced it that it never happened in the first place. EA, as you can see in the above video, has provided the most impressive example of that second method we've ever seen.After seeing one user's "Jesus Shot" video from Tiger Woods 08, (you'll find it just after the break), wherein a glitched Tiger ...
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Glen Murphy said:
Awesome customer interaction.
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Convoluted said:
Wow...you think this will have some controversy?
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Jeff Crump said:
This is kinda hilarious that they went to so much trouble to do this.
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INCyr said:
I'm not usually an EA fan, but man, this was FANTASTIC. Bravo, EA!
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kyle said:
Awesome!
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David said:
This is awesome viral marketing.
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Jilted said:
Awesome!
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Vorak said:
This is freaking hilarious.
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Vanchi said:
Funny. But they made a campaign out of a glitch.
bullshit bingo (10)
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A game that can be played in large meetings. The players write down management-nonsense word like "Out-of-the-box-thinking", "Synergy", "Content streamlining" etc. in a 5 by 5 square bingo card. If a word or phrase is used during the meeting you check the box. When you get a five box line (horizontally, vertically or diagonally ) you shout "BULLSHIT!" and win.Company bigshot fancypants: "And that is why this merger is going to benefit shareholder value by ...
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Erin said:
Haha, this'd be awesome.
CSS Variables Are The Future (2)
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or: “Reports of the Harm Caused By CSS Variables Are Greatly Exaggerated” To say that CSS is abominable isn’t controversial. The implementations are leading the spec in some places, and we’re getting real progress there. Firefox’s rounded corners and WebKit’s drop-shadows, declarative animations, background tiling, and CSS variables are all hugely important and liberating. But where the spec is in-front of the important implementations…well, I’ve ranted before on the topic. CSS sucks, and the editor ...
Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children (110)
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A Hong Kong computer programmer who had legally resided in the US for 15 years (since he was 17) and fathered two American children went for his final green card interview and was locked up, detained until he died of cancer that the DHS refused to treat him for. He had overstayed a visa (the DHS sent a key notice to the wrong address), and this prompted the DHS to lock him away and demand ...
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André said:
Land of the free.
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Chris De Vries said:
Man's inhumanity to man.
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gyakusetsu said:
Stop Apartheid!
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David said:
Another violation of human rights by the 'land of the free'
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Michael said:
I have no words... I feel sick.
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dekrazee1 said:
Oh my...
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CKL said:
Disgraceful. We're all living in a Kafka novel these days.
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Derrick said:
Bureaucracy: Is there anything it can't louse up? Then again, even the faceless machine of civil process can hardly excuse such a repugnant travesty. Interestingly, or horrifyingly, after nearly 40 years, we still haven't learned anything from the Stanford prison experiment.
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Cheryl said:
Absolutely disgusting behavior by this US government office. Everyone involved should be fired and/or jailed.
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Greg said:
God Bless America and our Private Prison-Military-Industrial-Congressional complex.
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Yusuf said:
The land of the free!
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Jonathan said:
This is beyond shameful.
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Preeti Desai said:
I have no words...
CSS Variables Are The Future (5)
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or: “Reports of the Harm Caused By CSS Variables Are Greatly Exaggerated” To say that CSS is abominable isn’t controversial. The implementations are leading the spec in some places, and we’re getting real progress there. Firefox’s rounded corners and WebKit’s drop-shadows, declarative animations, background tiling, and CSS variables are all hugely important and liberating. But where the spec is in-front of the important implementations…well, I’ve ranted before on the topic. CSS sucks, and the editor ...
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Erik Arvidsson said:
I bit long but oh so right
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Ben said:
As a developer, I entirely disagree with this: "Recall that one of the primary drivers behind CSS inheritance, macros, and variables is to reduce the size of style sheets." While that is *one* of the reasons, I don't think that it's something I particularly care about (rendering time for under-CPUed mobile devices is a reason against complicated stylesheets), but for the relative sizes we're talking about 1kB vs 2kB, it really doesn't matter, IMO.As a developer, the number one practical issue (within this scope) is ease of maintenance. The reason that I would want macros and variables in CSS is to cut down on code-reuse. NOT because code reuse adds bloat, but because it near linearly-increases the amount of time required to maintain and make changes to a particular stylesheet. Hell even adding '//' style comments (rather than /* */) would increase productivity.
Google Employees Pose for Street View (53)
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For the latest Google Maps Street View update, Google not only added pics for Australia, Japan and several US cities, but also included imagery of what seem to be Google employees lining up near-by the Google headquarters. This is similar to an older Street View posing but larger in scale: The baby dangling incident An allegory for the eternal struggle between project management, development and design... “Compiling” The Street View icon dude “Dad what’s a ...
