Mozilla Prism

Your Favourite Online Applications and Web Tools on Your Desktop!With the sheer amount of extensions supported, Firefox looks to become like the Operating System for your Internet. Mozilla's Prism brings your favourite online applications and web tools to your desktop, so now you can access your gMail account through a shortcut on your desktop.

Before we know it there will be no need to download huge applications onto our hard drives, and the need to install them with also be extinguished. As more and more web tools and online applications appear on the Internet, as internet speeds increase and as online scripting languages become more powerful, webtools are starting to offer some very impressive services and users are becoming more and more accustomed to the alternatives these webtools provide to traditional software.

Mozilla's Prism takes online web tools and applications, removes them from the belly of your web browser and places them virtually on your desktop. So, as the surfaces of new web applications and traditional desktop begin to intersect, Prism allows experiment with new usability models that take advantage of this approaching fusion.
Prism, How it works

Prism may not be a friendly solution to user that is accustomed to heavy use of the "Forward" and "Back" buttons, or for sites that rely on "Forward" and "Back" navigation, as the application essentially a bare-bones web browser: think FireFox without all the menus and buttons. While the advantages of this little application are far from revolutionary, it can be said that this approach reduces the amount of memory that would be used if accessing these applications via regular browsers, furthermore it makes accessing those important sites a little quicker. It may however become problematic when the browser functionalities are required, specifically in cases of loss of connection or when a webtool experiences downtime.

Prism isn't a revolutionary product, and it can be debated as to whether people will actually use it to any extent, but it does show forward thinking in terms of what the Internet can offer as it embraces the fact the web applications are not just scripting language showpieces anymore, but maturing into solid applications.

So, if you want to make the Google Office Suite into its own application on your desktop you should give Prism a test drive.


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