6 Responses to “UberView coming soon”

1. Chris Messina Says:
   July 29th, 2008 at 11:53 am

   This is very cool…! The question I have — is can these plugins introspect other frames? For example, if I wanted to browse with a microformats detecting plugin (or like a built-in data detector for microformats and similar patterns…) could my plugin grab the content of the primary frame and perform modifications on it?

   In other words, can plugins talk to one another?

2. Todd Ditchendorf Says:
   July 29th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

   Hey Chris, thanks!

   The Plug-In API currently allows plugins to communicate with/listen to/inspect/message the webviews in the main browser tabs. To this point, no plugins that I have created have yet communicated with each other, but that’s definitely possible… and the hooks to do it are already there I’m sure.

   So there’s no official API for that yet, but as soon as i need that functionality in a plugin i’m writing — or as soon as anyone else writes a plugin that needs that functionality — I’ll certainly cleanup/document that API. I’m sure that will happen eventually, as I agree, cross-plugin communication could be interesting.

   So in other words, there are no barriers to this functionality as soon as someone wants to utilize it.

3. dstaley Says:
   August 2nd, 2008 at 21:25 pm

   Wow. That’s the only thing I can say. I remember when the web first got wind of the Fluid project. I bookmarked it even though at that time, I didn’t have a Mac. Since then, Fluid has become an integral part of my daily life.

   Keep up the great work. I love to see these new features, and can’t wait until the future. I know Fluid is going to be even more amazing.

4. Matt Says:
   August 4th, 2008 at 07:02 am

   Todd, I’ve been looking forward to this feature for a while–even though Socialthing! is helping me smush a lot of my online networking into one interface, I’m still looking forward to getting my entire social networking fix in one wonderfully compact window. This is definitely the next step.

   Since I’m a socialthing! user, I wondered if the plug-in you’re developing for the site is available anywhere and I just don’t know about it, or if it’s something you’re just still working through development and I should be patient? Thanks.

5. Todd Ditchendorf Says:
   August 5th, 2008 at 02:03 am

   @dstaley thanks!! glad you like Fluid. It’s really great hearing positive feedback!

   @Matt I’ve tinkered around with a ‘Socialthing!’ plugin… but honestly it was never much more than a normal BrowsaBrowsa plugin directed at socialthing.com. I haven’t really created a dedicated Socialthing! plugin. The good news is that with the new features available in the latest release of Fluid you can definitely setup a BrowsaBrowsa plugin to be dedicated to viewing either the mobile or desktop version of Socialthing! That gets you pretty much 99% of the way there anyhow… :0]

6. Colin Says:
   December 16th, 2008 at 09:22 am

   Hi,

   I do like Fluid so much that I have given up iCal in favour of gCals via fluid so I don’t need to sync Macs. Sadly, of course, I have to use the calendars on a Tiger iBook via Safari.

   However, from time to time and usually when in background, gCal in Fluid seems to bring Safari to the front, open a new tab and then my calendars! The other day it did it roughly every 10 mins while I was watching eyeTV. It was cured by quitting and re-launching Fluid/gCal.

   Cheers, Colin