Mozilla posted today with further elaboration on a product still in Labs called Prism. I didn’t quite grasp the significance of the product in some of the dry descriptions I’ve been reading here and there, but as I put the pieces together, it looks like it could be quite a revolutionary direction for web-based applications and Mozilla as an organization.
Prism promises to enable desktop functionality (similar to Adobe AIR) for web applications, giving them their own window or desktop presence.
Those that have given Prism a test drive say that the look and feel is very similar to the WebRunner product from Mozilla. I must admit a certain ignorance on the bulk of Mozilla’s products, as my user experience tends more towards web-based applications.
In its present form, Prism doesn’t have the ability to function on the desktop without access to the Internet, but Mozilla says it is “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.”
[via ZDnet]
Visit here to subscribe to these commentsUser comment: By: AngelosAccording to the Mozilla post, Prism feels similar to WebRunner because, well it is. To build an application better capable of merging online and offline behavior, Mozilla tweaked and renamed the WebRunner platform. Another interesting solution to this problem comes from Chicago based Humanized (www.humanized.com). Allows both computing landscapes to interact in a manner most convenient for the user...difficult to explain in a comment, but worth a look.
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