Are you still using a web browser to access your favourite online applications? Why not do things the easy way, and make those applications part of your desktop with Prism. Scott Nesbitt at Freesoftware Magazine tells you what Prism can do to boost you experience of the web on your desktop -and more importantly, how to do it. Read the full story at FSM. Editor's Note: This story looks at Prism from the point of view of a Gnome user on Linux, but Prism can be used on Mac OS and Windows as well. Check out the Prism project page for information on other platforms.
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Member since:2005-08-31
You've just developed an incredible business app. It use all the latest technologies, it fast, productivity wise. You believe it's the perfect application for them. Plus you want it to be a success and make money for you living.
But using all the new technologies make it impossible to support non-standard browser (IE). Your choice, you're using less stuff an make your application not as good as it can be, or you ditch IE support.
If you choose the later, you will face a hard to explain problem. Your customer(s) may be reluctant to switch to Firefox (or safari/opera/etc). Solution? You have a wonderful client application built for your product. Result: a closed deal.
This may sound ridiculous(especially for tech guys), but many customer will be more open to install/chose a client application that comes with a product, that to use a "different" solution. Maybe it's because one way you force them to change their way of working, and the other you're adding some tools. Others make business decision on THE browser they must use, but any other application are fine. I'm no psychologist, but as a developer/business owner I face this situation more than once. Prism is a nice solution to bring web base solution in enterprise without the burden of IE and clueless decision maker.
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2007-01-12
Looks like a solution for a nonexisting problem.
Right now nothing stops me from adding any link or favorites to my startmenu or whatever I use to open applications. On Windows I even just need to drag them there.
And if the browser widgets are such a terrible problem, an option to not load/show them included in the browser would be more elegant than installing another app/extension.
Having a command like: "startbrowser www.webapp.com --no-widgets" would be more convincing, the only problem would probably be that it wouldn't justify a shiny website or calling it a project, though...