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I'm hoping that Github and DDG convince more websites to have some kind of command interface, as it's really my favorite mode of interaction. I get that the current look is the stereotypical "hacker" style terminal, but none of my terminals have such a small font or high contrast coloring :( Ctrl + doesn't seem to increase the font size, either.
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I'm sure you realize that not all of us 1) use graphical user interfaces or environments when we work 2) have browser open 3) prefer clicking around stuff Just some of us want to do simple things such as [shift]+[right arrow], "ddg hackernews -l 5" which would then return the five topmost(the imaginary -l or --limit) results. No need to change workspaces, focus the browser, open a new tab, write out the search term,…
I think you totally misinterpreted your parent comment, and read sarcasm where there was none!
I'm hoping that Github and DDG convince more websites to have some kind of command interface, as it's really my favorite mode of interaction. I get that the current look is the stereotypical "hacker" style terminal, but none of my terminals have such a small font or high contrast coloring :( Ctrl + doesn't seem to increase the font size, either.
'pronounce castle' to pronounce a word (say castle). (uses [:0] http://www.forvo.com/)
When you type pronounce castle however - it searches for it, and doesn't pronounce anything.
Is this any more useful than a normal web search? Google Search (with Instant Search enabled) has had keyboard navigation for a long time. After you hit enter on a search, hit tab and you can navigate the results with your arrow keys. And when you go to Google's homepage your cursor is automatically placed in the Search box, so you can search Google with only a keyboard.
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This was what I was hoping for rather than an ascii terminal style search. Does DDG have an API?
DDG does have an API for the goodies, but not for the search results because they come from a variety of sources, some of which don't allow sub-licensing.
Using this felt similar to using the Github Launch Bar[1] for the first time. Something about having a command line interface really makes it feel like you are communicating deeply with the software, as opposed to poking around its surface in arranged flows. With a command line the interaction is different - it is exploratory with freestyle flow composition, and that can be really fun. Modern graphical interfaces com…
Sentiments I totally agree with. So much so that we started a side project to create a CLI environment for exploring the personal cloud. It's a web app which exposes your FB, Twitter, Picasa resources as files and navigate them using a shell and unix-like tools. It's not "launch-ready" yet - still got to write tests, docs, FAQs, and so on (i.e. the last 10% which takes 90%) but there is a live alpha version at https:…
Using this felt similar to using the Github Launch Bar[1] for the first time. Something about having a command line interface really makes it feel like you are communicating deeply with the software, as opposed to poking around its surface in arranged flows. With a command line the interaction is different - it is exploratory with freestyle flow composition, and that can be really fun. Modern graphical interfaces com…
Sentiments I totally agree with. So much so that we started a side project to create a CLI environment for exploring the personal cloud. It's a web app which exposes your FB, Twitter, Picasa resources as files and navigate them using a shell and unix-like tools. It's not "launch-ready" yet - still got to write tests, docs, FAQs, and so on (i.e. the last 10% which takes 90%) but there is a live alpha version at https:…
In addition to the mixed content issue on Chrome, I've pushed out a fix for the tab completion component. It too inherently suffers from mixed content because our autocomplete server only does HTTP at the moment. Please let us know if you see anymore issues.