ubiquity rocks!

today, i felt like playing some more with ubiquity, which i had installed for a while now but had not played around with sufficiently. i decided to try to write a simple plugin that will search the quran for a particular set of words. to do this, i felt obliged to expose an api for the alpha version of quranicrealm first, which was good because i needed to do it eventually anyway.

and here’s the mandatory screenshot:

it still needs a lot of work… things i still want to do if i get around to it:

• add a favicon (for the site and for the plugin)

• more options (ex, “search english,” or “search transliteration,” etc)

• replace the current text with a link (or translation). this would be useful in im conversations or while writing blog posts.

• a “get-ayah” command (to say, “get ayah 1 of sura fatiha in arabic,” for example).

anyway, i’ll post up the code when i’ve added some improvements insha’Allah. if you want it before then, post a comment.