raylin / webdeacon

send order to your deacon through the web

WebDeacon

Why WebDeacon

The Prototype is able to:

• Open installed app in new tab
• Open app inside of dialog
• Search through default search provider
• Search through different search provider
• provide instant suggestion through default and target search providers
• navigation with keyboard

Refer Test Cases to figure out the usage.

Plan to do

• Pin app as a Widget in dialog
• Add personality to deacon

WebDeacon Interaction

Elements: order box, deacon box (order tags, instant search tags, suggestions), chat history

• Search and Open are the default verbs, we don't need to type them manually.
• Search providers are exposed as default verbs. (ex: user could use wikipedia <keyword>/w <keyword> to search wikipedia directly)

order-tag-suggestion interface

User is able to found what she needs quickly through keyboard and tags:

• key in on input field to get instant results from several resources ** the tag field will show correspondent order tags and instant suggestion tags ** the suggestion field will show available actions
• Tap order tag will further scoping the selections
• key in to filter order tags, use space to match certain verb + noun pattern

Chat activity

Webdeacon interact with you with chat-like interface. Just like any other instant messengers, all previous dialog are listed as an activity stream.

Rules

1. respect existing browser searchbar and instant messenger's interactions, so user has pretty small barrier to use Webdeacon.

2. always use verb + noun format to execute new commands

Moonbar maintain a defined order(verbs) set on device. noun generally denotes the search term.

3. show all available order tags when no user input

4. while user typing, they can tap tag to further scoping the suggestions

5. Extensions are just normal URLs. User could choose to open it in new window or embed it in the dialog.

Willing to Contribute?

File a issue to discuss a possible new verb and its usage.

If you are a programmer, clone the project, send a Pull Request to fix the issue you encountered when you use webdeacon.

WebDeacon use Commitizen to help us write better commit message. When you want commit changes into project, use git cz instead of git commit.

Make sure you have installed the Commitizen cli tools via command:

npm install commitizen -g

Testing

Install dependencies

npm install
npm install -g karma-cli

Run

npm test

Credit

WebDeacon is forked from Moonbar. The enhanced searchbar with order-tag-suggestion interface.

license

Mozilla Public License, version 2.0 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/