Mozilla Prism: Pull Web Apps From Your Browser And Run Them On Your Desktop
Mozilla Lab’s new offering, Prism, is part of what they call “a series of experiments to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps”.
Prism lets users turn websites or web services into desktop applications which run in their own separate window. Prism is actually the new name for Webrunner which Mozilla Labs moved into their code repository.
What to use it for? An example would be to set up your email to run separate from your browser so it’s safe even if your browser crashes.
Mozilla was quick to point out that they were “not building a proprietary platform to replace the web”. Prism currently supports Windows only. Mac and Linux versions will follow in the coming weeks.
For those of you thinking that Prism should be integrated with Firefox, here’s what the team over at Mozilla Labs had to say:
We’re also thinking about how to better integrate Prism with Firefox, enabling one-click “make this a desktop app” functionality that preserves a user’s preferences, saved passwords, cookies, add-ons, and customizations. Ideally you shouldn’t even have to download Prism, it should just be built into your browser.
The application is still in its early stages so its features are limited. If you’re expecting a finished app, don’t download it yet.
Those interested in learning more about Prism should pay a visit to Alex Faaborg.
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October 27th, 2007 02:17
I’m using Adobe’s Air in beta to run Gas, which is a Google Analytics client for the desktop.
It’s certainly a different way of doing things, but that’s pretty much all you’re getting with widgets — a different way of doing things.
Based on what I’ve seen thus far, there’s nothing new or intrinsically unique, it’s just all the stuff you do on-line done off-line, instead…
October 27th, 2007 03:23
@Wayne:
Yeah, that’s true. I hardly use desktop widgets since they tend to lag me when I’m playing CZ hehe.
October 27th, 2007 12:14
looked cool to me.
October 27th, 2007 13:55
This is so cool . Than means we can have orkut as a desktop application.
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October 27th, 2007 14:00
@syahid:
Glad you liked it buddy
October 27th, 2007 14:02
@Madhur:
That’s true buddy!
October 28th, 2007 05:53
I think this will be the way of all apps within 10 years, it would solve the problem of making sure everyone is using the latest version.
I think we need to see a much more stable and widespread broadband first though..
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October 28th, 2007 07:13
@Andy:
You got a point there. I’m all in favor of better broadband too
October 28th, 2007 10:50
i like this one i’ll check it out… thanks for sharing!
October 28th, 2007 11:11
The software looked cool to me and this website is too cool
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October 28th, 2007 23:34
so cool
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October 28th, 2007 23:58
Looks like a nice concept. Firefox integration would be great!
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October 29th, 2007 01:08
@parisukat:
I’ll be sure to visit your blog.
You’re welcome
@Saurabh:
Thanks for the compliment!
@narendra:
Haha I liked it too
@Nirmal:
I agree buddy. Firefox integration would be a killer feature.