It’s very amazing to see that how Mozilla has revolutionized the web with Firefox and taking a crunch from IE during the past couple of years. And really the innovative ideas that come out are truly magnificent.
Well, recently Mozilla Labs released a beta of a Firefox extension that turns any website application into a desktop app without any fuss of conversion etc and is known as Prism.
Prism not only creates the application but auto magically puts automatic updating features, like if your website gets updated, the application gets automatically updated as well.
“With the release of Prism 1.0 beta we are ready to start fostering an ecosystem that makes it easier for developers to create and distribute compelling web app bundles,” wrote Matthew Gertner on the Prism development team.
The Mozilla blog presents a few improvements and benefits to using desktop apps rather than solely relying on a Web page:
- New API functionality to allow Prism-enabled Web sites more desktop-like power.
- Capability to set fonts, proxy settings, and other application-specific settings.
- Capability to clear private data on demand.
- Applications are automatically updated when new Prism versions are available.
- Tray icon support, and submenus for dock and system tray menus.
- Full OS X 10.4 support, and further OS X specific enhancement.
- Support for SSL exceptions.
Prism supports both Mac and Windows platforms and can be downloaded here.
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