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Tue, 2nd December 2008
Prism Update Makes Creating Desktop Apps as Simple as Installing a Firefox Add-on
Mozilla Labs has cranked discover an updated edition of Prism, the company’s papers for integrating scheme apps into your desktop. Prism allows you to removed scheme applications (like Gmail or Facebook, for example) in a azygos covering window, removed from your important Firefox application.
While the standalone edition of Prism has been updated to hold whatever pleasant newborn options same gift apiece scheme app in its possess strikingness so they don’t interact with apiece other, the large programme is the promulgation of a newborn Prism Firefox spreading by the study of Refractor.
Thanks to Refractor, using Prism in today a ultimate as instalment a Firefox add-on.
The newborn Refractor spreading effectuation that you crapper today removed a scheme covering soured to Prism from within Firefox — without ever needing to establish and control a standalone edition of the Prism application. Just install the extension, feeding to a scheme app, then superior Tools > Convert Website to Application and you’re done.
The plus of cordoning soured scheme apps with Prism is that you refrain losing accumulation from covering crashes and, more importantly, you crapper verify plus of whatever features that are typically exclusive acquirable in screen programs.
The Refractor spreading gives Prism a momentous plus over competing platforms same Adobe’s AIR, which requires a removed download meet to intend the support installed.
The newborn plugin exclusive entireness with the Firefox 3 betas and is not without its quirks — I couldn’t intend the bespoken picture to exhibit up in my tab-switching window, which prefabricated it impracticable to characterize Firefox from my standalone Gmail Prism app. There also doesn’t seem to be an cushy artefact to add extensions to standalone apps, which Prism definitely needs to embellish a viable deciding to the browser.
Keep in nous of instruction that Prism and Refractor are both Mozilla Labs projects which effectuation they’re ease in the empiric initiate and aren’t meant for maturity time. Still, despite a some quirks, if you’re hunting for a artefact to intend a more desktop-like undergo from scheme apps, Prism meet strength be the answer.
[via Mozilla Links]
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