Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th May 2009 09:21 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
The boys and girls of the Mozilla project have taken the wraps off the beta for Prism 1.0. Prism is a technology which blurs the boundaries between the web and the desktop, allowing you to approach web sites as if they were ordinary desktop applications. Prism is cross-platform, and runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
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This is very similar to other technologies that have existed for a while. For example, I contribute to Vexi:
http://vexi.sourceforge.net/
It has similar properties with 1 major difference; brand power. Mozilla brand is strong, and they have a large infrastructure (and as such many developers) behind them, whereas as most projects like Vexi suffer from being too loosely presented to the world - not because they're not good or not well-featured, but because the final push (documentation, demos, marketing) takes a full time effort and we don't have the manpower to do that.
Is Prism good? Probably. Anything special? I doubt it.