Mozilla Tests Integrated Desktop Browser 156
HelloDotJPEG writes "Mozilla Labs, the organisation's experimental arm, has launched Prism for interested Windows users to try out. Prism is a piece of software which integrates web applications such as Gmail or Google Reader into the desktop. The program enables you to run multiple such sites as though they were local applications, each in their own dedicated browser window. The product isn't entirely new, but is an officially adopted and rebranded update to the Site-Specific Browser project WebRunner (not to be confused with XULRunner upon which it is built). From the site: 'Web developers don't have to target it separately, because any application that can run in a modern standards-compliant web browser can run in Prism. Prism is built on Firefox, so it supports rich internet technologies like HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and and runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. And while Prism focuses on how web apps can integrate into the desktop experience, we're also working to increase the capabilities of those apps by adding functionality to the Web itself, such as providing support for offline data storage and access to 3D graphics hardware.'"
Hmm (Score:4, Funny)
And thus it was so, that viruses became even more abundant, and 3D accelerated.
Woohoo! (Score:4, Funny)
I'm sure it would've taken years to build a similar application using
Re:Hmm (Score:4, Funny)
That'd be great! And with just a little bit of effort I'm sure it could surpass the feature-richness and security Microsoft's implementation of this process (they call it ActiveX).
Wow, people are sick (Score:2, Funny)
2 of the main reasons to run an application locally is so that you control your own data.....and don't have to look at ads. This looks like the worst of both worlds....right on your desktop.
Buzz-word compliance (Score:4, Funny)
But does it support DNS?..
Look, ma, no tabs (Score:3, Funny)
Mozilla head #1> Umm, MS copies our tabs in their so-called browser !
Mozilla head #2> Ok, let's make a version without tabs... and while we're at it, let's remove that pesky Back button - and we'll have a fix for the memory leak too !!!
Re:I don't get it (Score:3, Funny)
"This is the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft"
Good name (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And the point of this is.....? (Score:1, Funny)
Web 3.0? Or are we up to 3.5? 4? If it involves AJAX, I'm all over it...
Re:Hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, those movie plots are always so unrealistic