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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RE[2]: Questions for the experts
by Hypnos on Tue 12th May 2009 12:50
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Member since:2008-11-19
If the websites look at all "app-liked" rather than "website-like," to do even what you describe you need some kind of HTTP-based control protocol (e.g., SOAP) and a portable runtime (in this case, XUL).
So with all this infrastructure, you might as well do more than simply having smart links and a few custom settings!
RE[3]: Questions for the experts
by slight on Tue 12th May 2009 15:39
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Member since:2006-09-10
But they're not app-like, they're just websites in their own frame with some extra Firefox JS API for interfacing with some desktop functionality. This has nothing to do with XUL except that it uses xulrunner as essentially a low overhead container for Gecko.
You can of course create apps in XUL + JS, but that's not what this is.
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2006-09-10
Well essentially, it bears absolutely no relation to them! :p
It's a couple of things. It's a tool for creating a link that will launch a browser for a particular site with custom settings for that site, and it's a set of APIs that allow sites to interact with the desktop a little, like minimizing to the task tray, and creating a pop-up right-click menu for minimized apps.
I'm sure there's some more to it but AFAICT that's about it.