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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by sly010 on Saturday May 14, 2016 @09:13AM (#11695957)
Ubiquity was ppioneered by Aza Raskin (son of Jess Rasking, designer the original Mac interface). I always had the feeling that uqiquity never was a Mozilla project per say, it was more his personal project that he happened to do inside Mozilla. Perhaps he left or got promoted and the project stopped. I am only guessing.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by digi_owl on Saturday May 14, 2016 @09:38AM (#11696053)
The Mac interface has little to do with Ubiquity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQDfpw97Tz0

This is Aza demoing the beta version, and to me it seems to build more on Archy than anything WIMP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by sly010 on Thursday May 19, 2016 @10:34AM (#11730497)
Apologies, I wasn't trying to imply a connection between the Mac interface and Ubiquity, just wanted to put Aza's love for UX in context by mentioning his father's work. I also didn't know about Archy.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by nojvek on Saturday May 14, 2016 @12:42PM (#11696886)
Ubiquity was really awesome. May be I should build an electron app and resurrect it.
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