It’s extremely cool

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

You should watch the video, the stuff they’re doing already is kind-of exciting. It reminded me a lot of PowerShell, so I started digging around some blogs and trying to figure out where they are going, and what their inspiration is … and now I’m really quite excited about it and you should be too. Won’t it be cool when you can tell Firefox something like:

Hey Firefox? Take this text from this page, translate it to Spanish, encrypt it with my mom’s public key, email it to her … and oh yeah save this chain of commands as a new command so I can use it later.

That’s the vision of jono over at Mozilla Labs, and it sounds pretty good to me Although I couldn’t help but think that if I could access PowerShell from my browser and pipe in the selected text, I could do pretty much all of that with existing commands

Anyway, I thought I’d give you a few links to read about the concepts of expressive, composable, linguistic, and partially graphical interfaces. And then later on, I’ll show you mine.

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