New web-experience with Mozilla Prism
preamble
Our world is currently in transition from traditional desktop applications to web-oriented where most of time we want to do everything in the Web with help of our browsers.
Sometimes nevertheless we want to use some web-applications like: Gmail, Google docs, FaceBook or on-line dictionary as desktop application. Is it possible ? Try the Prism.
prism world
With Prism you can run web-oriented applications directly on desktop in their own window where they have access to all windows features and you still can access these same applications from your web browser.
Prism is built on Firefox so it supports all rich internet technologies and runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Also Prism developers thinking how to integrate better the Prism with Firefox,
enabling one-click “make this a desktop app” functionality that preserves a user preferences.
For more information about Prism go to the project page: [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Prism]
When invoked it is as pretty as following picture:
getting Started with Prism
download and install appopriate version for your platform:
Prism for Firefox v0.2 for Firefox 3.0b3pre or greater, Windows/Mac/Linux.
The standalone version of Prism v0.9 is also available:
for Windows (installer, archive), Mac and Linux.
Mozilla foundation wants for you
Prism is open source project and if you want to help Mozilla with Prism development go to:
[http://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism]
forum for discussions: [https://labs.mozilla.com/forum/index.php/board,16.0.html]
Bugzilla for bug reporting: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mozilla+Labs&component=Prism]
