Prism, a new experiment from Mozilla Labs, lets users split web applications out of the browser

http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/

by nickb • 19 years ago

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falsestprophet• 19 years ago

This is a very disorienting idea.

zurla• 19 years ago

if you use a mac and gmail, check out mailplane. it's like this but better for gmail

michaelneale3• 19 years ago

I like it. Very very cool. Kudos to Mozilla.

michaelneale3• 19 years ago

Notice the cheek of the adobe guy for musing about supporting offline storage as being non standard, then pimping the very proprietary and platform limited AIR (let alone flash).

ed• 19 years ago

I think Mike's absolutely right. There's nothing inherently better about Mozilla's efforts simply because they're non-profit.

You gotta hand it to Mike Chambers though; if there's one thing he's good at, it's spending all day on the internet googling Adobe.

michaelneale3• 19 years ago

lol ! Yes some people are just everywhere.

Well its was more the use of words that offended me. There is something "better" in that mozilla is a non profit committed (and with a track record) of delivering free (in every sense) software. They would only go beyond a standard when they really really really had to (and only until standards caught up).

I do respect adobes chops in the user interface space though, I just think their attitudes to open source (rather, their current leaderships attitudes) are a little pre-historic.

edw519• 19 years ago

F11. There, done.

some• 19 years ago

F11 also resizes the window to fullscreen. The aim of this project seems to be slightly different: Run Firefox without toolbars.

Still, it sounds crazy to have a dedicated project for this. I would think a commandline-option for firefox would be enough.

yters2• 19 years ago

The reddit thread on this has a very insightful analysis of the project's importance.

euccastro• 19 years ago

Great, we're getting closer and closer to reinventing the OS and the window manager.

mov• 19 years ago

Well, I think we have something like that with the Apple Dashboard, it uses WebKit to run some HTML+CSS+JS code on the desktop. At the near future I believe WebKit, Prism and other "embeddable browsers" will be at any kind of place running our web applications.

Prism, a new experiment from Mozilla Labs, lets users split web applications out of the browser

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