Mozilla Prism

Posted by Leo on March 28th, 2008 at 07:21am

A summary of the Mozilla Prism is “a web browser that acts like desktop application”.  Mozilla Prism was formerly known as Webrunner.

I personally like using desktop application more than web, as the interface only contains the stuff that I need when I am on it.  I don’t need a back and forward button when writing my programmes.  I don’t need an address bar either.

Same for some web applications eg. Gmail, Calender etc.  You don’t need those as they are Ajax based.

Mozilla Prism has stripped out all these.  Hence, when running Ajax web applications, it does look like a desktop application.  Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.

And hence, you can create individual icons for your application, to be placed on your desktop.

When they are run, these applications would run in their own window.

However, Mozilla Prism cannot be run offline.  As expected.

You can find more information about the Mozilla Prism here: http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/

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