Is Mozilla Ubiquity Dead? 148
darthcamaro writes "Remember Mozilla Ubiquity? It was an effort to bring natural language commands to the Firefox browser. Now after almost two years of development and a half million downloads, the project is no longer being actively developed. Project founder Aza Raskin is now working on other projects, including Mozilla Jetpack, so Ubiquity is on the back burner. '"There is huge demand for being able to connect the Web with language — to not have to move from one site to another to complete your daily tasks," Raskin said. "And there is huge demand for anyone to be able to write small snippets of code that lets them command the Web the way they want. Ubiquity gave everyday developers a voice with how the browser and the Web works."'"
Was really useful, but buggy (Score:2, Informative)
Ha. I just went and read about this myself. Personally I found ubiquity really useful. I loved the way I could select a postcode, press a keyboard combo and then just type "map" to get an interactive Google Map. I especially liked the way I could subscribe to feeds of commands, most of which had a whole host of handy options. The natural language process part of it was simple, but easily good enough for the intended purpose.
The reason I stopped using it was because new versions weren't backwards compatible and cleaning up after an update became a bit of a mess. I don't know if others had the same experience?
Re:Open Source Projects (Score:3, Informative)
What about Wesnoth though? What's it based on?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohan:_Immortal_Sovereigns [wikipedia.org]
Re:Open Source Projects (Score:3, Informative)
It's extremely derivative of the Warlords series of games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlords_(game_series) [wikipedia.org]
And for the record, since it's often mentioned in threads like this, Frozen Bubble is a total clone of Bust-A-Move: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_Bobble [wikipedia.org]
So now you know.
Re:Mozilla don't focus on getting Labs ideas out (Score:3, Informative)
What happened to Weave, it's been kicking around for years?
It's actually been updated recently; it's at the 1.01 release, but they've changed a lot of the options to customize it or at least access them. I even ditched Xmarks in favor of it because of the tab and history sync, and they're looking to add extensions in future releases.. https://mozillalabs.com/weave/ [mozillalabs.com]