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Mozilla "Ubiquity"

A command-line, textual, and probably linguistic, interface to the browser.

I am not sure how complex they are planning of making this, nor how it meshes with visions of the future of web browsing, but it's worth keeping an eye on.


I spent some time thinking about site-specific scripting, and had some discussions with students about building a site-specific DSL compiled to Greasemonkey scripts, but alas nothing came of it. It would be interesting to see whether Ubiquity command lines could be integrated into scripts, and how extensible the vocabulary is going to be, and on what level (i.e., site by site, via plugins etc.) Clearly also related to the often discussed topic of "end-user programming".