Matthew Gertner, former CTO of now defunct AllPeers, an excellent Firefox extension I miserably failed to properly review several times has an excellent writeup on TechCrunch, on Prism, Mozilla’s proposition for desktop enabled web apps and similar products from Adobe and Microsoft. You may want to give it a look.
Mozilla Labs has released a new version of Prism, a Firefox-based application that aims to make web applications fit better in today’s computer desktops. Prism runs one web application on a single window providing some features only possible for desktop programs in the past.
Along with the update to the stand alone Prism, comes Prism for Firefox extension (code named Refractor), a Firefox extension that eases the creation of web application profiles (.webapp files): just navigate to the web app main page and select Convert Website to Application from Firefox’s Tools menu.
Mozilla Labs released today Prism, a rebranded version of WebRunner, a Mozilla-based application for running single web applications.
On the name change, Mozilla’s Alex Faaborg comments:
…most people aren’t going to semantically disambiguate terms the same way we do. For mainstream users, “running” means faster than jogging, and similarly “execution” involves killing people. The name Prism references a real world metaphor for splitting something apart.
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