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Mozilla Prism - Bringing Web Apps to the Desktop
I feel like I’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of months. I’ve only just heard about Mozilla’s Prism - and it’s already changing the way I use web-apps.
Prism, (previously called WebRunner), is essentially a Site Specific Browser (SSB) - meaning that it’s a desktop application designed to host a single web-application. This is good for many reasons, foremost it causes less distractions.
So far, I have prisms set-up for most of the Google apps that I regularly use: Google Mail, Google Calendar and Google Reader. Now each of these web-applications are not open as separate tabs in my Firefox, but as individual desktop applications. (Now I don’t have to worry about finding my Gmail tab in Firefox, nor about browser-crashes.)
It reminds of Microsoft attempted to do with HTA - but it seemed more difficult to interface them with external web-applications.
You can read more about Mozilla Prism on their Lab’s blog. [http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/]
