How to write a Ubiquity Command

1. Mskadu 1.30.09 / 4am

   Nice Tutorial! But it’s a bit strange to have to see so many Flash Ads(?) on a page.
2. Tristan 1.30.09 / 5am

   Wow, this is sooooo cool!

   The existing template, the ability to immediately run the verb and this short video made me totally want to create my own commands. Jono and Ubiquity rule!

   –Tristan
3. Paulo Sargaço 1.30.09 / 7am

   I was loving the tutorial until at minute 6:20 it just froze. Bizarre! Anyway, my programming is a bit rusty so any help is cool. Anyone has a suggestion as to why the video freezes? Maybe the file itself is broken?
4. Phil 1.30.09 / 10am

   It also froze for me :( exactly at 6:20! Nice video though
5. Aza Raskin 1.30.09 / 3pm

   @Paulo, @Phil: Very weird. It plays for me!

   @Mskadu: Flash ads? I’m confused.

   @Tristan: Jono says thanks :)
6. Paulo Sargaço 1.30.09 / 6pm

   Are you pulling the video directly from this web page or are you using your own version, maybe on your computer? I got the same behaviour on the following configurations:
   - through my work network, work network user and firefox
   - through my home network with the local laptop user
   - after downloading the video with real player

   All of these on the same laptop with WinXP.
7. Tristan 1.31.09 / 4am

   The video has been freezing for me too at 6:20 twice. I’m trying a third time, now from home.
8. Tristan 1.31.09 / 4am

   It froze a third time. Maybe a bad version of Flash? (I’m running 9.0.151 on Fx 3.1b2 - Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081125 Firefox/3.1b2)
9. Tom Sieron 2.1.09 / 4pm

   :( it froze for me too, at 6:20. OSX, Firefox 3.0.5, Flash player 10.
10. Aza Raskin 2.1.09 / 8pm

    I can’t seem to reproduce the problem. I’m also on OSX, with FF 3.05, and Flash player 10. Have you guys tried skipping past 6:20 with the scrubber?
11. Paulo Sargaço 2.2.09 / 5am

    Aza, could it be that you have the video cached and meanwhile it has been broken for some reason? This would explain why you are able to watch it and some of us aren’t. And Tom Sieron even has the same configuration as you have.

    And yes, I tried pushing the video over the 6:20 threshold using the scrubber as you call it. Alas, without any results.
12. Sam Hasler 2.2.09 / 11am

    Froze at 6:20 for me too.

    Flash Player 10,

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Ubiquity/0.2pre7
13. Ryan Carson 2.2.09 / 5pm

    Hey Aza,

    I’d love to invite you to speak at FOWA sometime. What’s the best way to get in touch?

    Best,
    Ryan
14. Aza Raskin 2.3.09 / 12pm

    @all: I’ll ask Jono to re-upload the video, to see if that fixes the problem.

    @Ryan: aza [the little a in the circle] mozilla.com
15. Paulo Sargaço 2.17.09 / 12pm

    Ok, this thread seems dead, but I’d like to wrap it up anyway. I figured out what the problem was. The video was ok, as Aza suggested. The problem seems to be that the Flash player doesn’t stomach .mov files that well. After I installed QuickTime on my XP laptop I tried the video again and it played fine.
16. NEENEURCE 4.3.09 / 6pm

    нда.. +1 !
17. Kaxpeenue 4.15.09 / 4pm

    mm… 10x..

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