Major Update to Prism, First Prototype of Browser Integration

Chris Beard

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Prism is an open source cross-platform prototype of functionality that lets users split web applications out of the browser and run them directly on the desktop.

Today we’re releasing a major update to Prism that includes the first prototype of browser integration along with new desktop integration capabilities and simpler installation.

As previously announced, Prism is part of a series of Mozilla Labs experiments into bridging the divide in the user experience between web and desktop apps and exploring new usability models as the line between those kinds of apps continues to blur.

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Philosophy

We believe that the Web is a powerful platform for innovation, and our goal with Prism is to drive the development of enhancements to that platform that bring the advantages of desktop apps to the Web. To that end, Prism is not a new platform or product but rather a vehicle for Mozilla Labs to experiment with new technologies to extend the capabilities of the Open Web. Web developers shouldn’t have to lift a finger to desktop-enable their web applications (although they can specify settings to enhance the experience), while users have the choice to use their favorite web apps in their browser, on their desktop of choice, or in both places.

Major New Features and Updates

Today we’re releasing a major update to Prism that includes new desktop integration capabilities and simpler installation. With this update, you can now get Prism simply by installing a small extension to Firefox 3. With the new Prism extension for Firefox 3, users can now split web applications directly out of Firefox without needing to install and manage a separate Prism application. Just install the extension, browse to a web app, then select Tools > Convert Website to Application.

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Other new or improved features include:

  • Pick an icon to represent a web app on the desktop: Prism can use the web app favicon or the user can pick a custom image to represent the web app.
  • Run each web app in its own profile: Prism now places each web app into its own process/profile so they don’t interfere with each other, which also makes it possible to install a web app twice and use it simultaneously with two different user accounts.
  • Badge the dock icon: Initial support for adding a badge to the desktop icon has been added. Currently, this can be done through a custom webapp.js file. We’re working on creating and reusing web standards to expose this to content without requiring custom scripts.

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Roadmap

While Prism still supports .webapp and site-specific webapp.js files as a way to install, customize and launch Prism, we’re working towards removing the need for those files in favor of leveraging and extending existing web conventions for exposing site configuration, like <link> and <meta> tags.

See bug 420878 and bug 420661 for some of those discussions.

Mark Finkle also has a post with more information.

Get Prism for Firefox

Install Prism for Firefox v0.2 for Firefox 3.0b3pre or greater, Windows/Mac/Linux.
The standalone version of Prism v0.9 is also available for Windows (installer, archive), Mac and Linux.

Warning: This is an early prototype. Use at your own risk.

Getting Involved

Prism is just the first of many experiments we plan to conduct around improving the usability of web applications. It’s open source, like everything we do, and we’re interested in hearing from and working with anyone interested in developing these concepts further.

The project lead for Prism is Mark Finkle. Contributors include Cesar Oliveira, Matt Gertner, Fredrik Larsson, Wladimir Palant, Sylvain Pasche, Alex Faaborg, and Myk Melez.

113 responses

  1. Jim Tomlinson wrote on :

    Man, this is awesome. Love having my gmail as a separate app on my Mac, not beholden to the crashy whims of FF3. Will be looking deeper for use in my own webapps. Keep up the good work!

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  3. wm wrote on :

    Sadly, it looks like the site that was hosting the Google bundles has fallen off the old interwho.

  4. Christopher wrote on :

    “The fine folks at Mozilla have created Prism, which runs on the same engine as their fantastic Firefox browser.”

    Well, I wonder where each gets its config info, because many sites look different between the two. Look at FastMail.fm or fallensword.com. The latter is almost completely unusable in Prism, due to font sizes being different in some (not all) areas of the page. Popups are so huge, half of the info is missing.

    I already have to design for 3+ browsers due to subtle differences and now you expect me to add another? I don’t think so. My clients will be doing without Prism versions for now.

  5. Fabrice wrote on :

    Hi all !!!

    I hope the Standalone version will still live !
    I like the goal of Prism but I don’t want to install FireFox 3 to use it.

    For my clients, the standalone version is excellent as this is the only software to install, not the heavy FireFox 3

    Please… continue working on the StandAlone version that offers a “Bubbles” mode (http://bubbleshq.com/)

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  7. punissuer wrote on :

    I love the idea Prism is based on, but lack of support for extensions is a dealbreaker for me. My ISP insists on serving annoying ads with my web mail. The web mail site is secure (https), but some of the ads aren’t, thus causing warnings from my browser. My ISP just expects me to change my browser’s security settings. Instead, I use AdBlock Plus to block the unsecured ads completely. If Prism could do the same, that would be great.

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  14. gego wrote on :

    ok, how do i compile svn trunk?
    there is no instructions or configure file, so what is up with that?

    make does not work
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  29. qlearner wrote on :

    Quick question,… is this project related in any way to the dashboard productivity tool that is developed by sisense ? (also called Prism)

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  35. Jake Lockley wrote on :

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  38. Steve Lee wrote on :

    Mark, this is looking great and I’m yet more convinced it will have accessibility uses, e.g. simplified access for PWLD.

    I just checked accessibility access to an encapsulated gmail with accerciser and as expected all looks fine so screen readers etc will all work.

    Cheers

  39. Marc Balmer wrote on :

    Did anyone build a macppc (G4) version of prism 0.9?

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  52. rion d’luz wrote on :

    Hi and kudos for for prism.
    This is kind of off the cuff of my head, but
    now that Web2.0 has transformed the www from documents and pages to DOM objects as webapps, how about splitting the perception of FF into both (a) a web browser and (b) a generic application launcher that lets its extensions control all the chrome and window attributes.

    This way, if i want to run a particular webapp that is associated with an extension i can simply run a separate instance of FF (./firefox –browser –extension=flickr)
    Now, the extension should have the capability of rendering the webapp analogous to kaipowertools say, really cool chrome and effects.

    IMHO, this is what will transform the browser into a full-fledged application engine with the look and feel akin to natively compiled apps.

    TIA

  53. john refano wrote on :

    I second Matt on this very important (and easy) point:

    “On Windows, how about the option to have the taskbar button disappear when minimized, leaving only the system tray icon? Keep it out of the way, and let the tray icon indicate activity, eg, new mail in Gmail or new message in Meebo?”

    I personally wouldn’t even need the icon to update, it would be fine for my uses if it stayed the way it is showing up now, and just hid the app in the taskbar.

    I’m trying to replace the IE based web app runner “Bubbles”, but having the web apps remain in my taskbar is not going to work for me.

    Am I missing something?

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  56. Ron wrote on :

    “Bringing web applications to the desktop”…

    I’m not sure what you guys are using to browse the web, but i browse it with Firefox… on my … desktop.

    Whats the big drive to bring the webapp into another desktop application?

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  64. tony wrote on :

    Please be able to hide into the system tray

  65. Brian W wrote on :

    Would be awesome to be able to use extensions and greasemonkey in the web apps. I can’t use Gmail with my RememberTheMilk extension and a few key greasemonkey scripts. But if those were supported I would be in heaven.

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  67. Jeremy wrote on :

    On the mac, it still seems pretty rough around the edges.

    I noticed a good deal of improvement to how it renders pages in version 0.9.

    However, when it loads from the doc, it loads as a generic app icon along with a firefox icon. Besides that, in the new app dialog, it asks for an icon – an image. It would be nice to have a way to select an icns file, which contains various sizes of images depending on the use for the app. Also various companies create icons for the mac and you can download them but they are distributed as folder icons – so even for the mac based fluidapp, one has to copy and paste the icon from that folder to the new app.

    Great job though, I’m excited about this project!

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  70. Sherwin wrote on :

    Would be great if you could support Powerbooks as well. Prism .8 worked fine on my G4…

    thanks!

  71. Matt wrote on :

    On Windows, how about the option to have the taskbar button disappear when minimized, leaving only the system tray icon? Keep it out of the way, and let the tray icon indicate activity, eg, new mail in Gmail or new message in Meebo?

    Great stuff, keep it up.

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  78. Lars K Jensen wrote on :

    I like the Firefox integration feautre.

    However, the title of the page is no longer showed as the title of the Prism window.

    Example: With Prism 0.8 I could see how many unread emails I had in my Gmail, now it just says “Gmail” or “Google Reader”. Was this changed on purpose, or will I be able to view the page title as the Prism window title in the next version?

    All the best,
    // Lars

  79. Kevin Jordan wrote on :

    How can you import a root certificate such as CACert.org’s or at least make it so that Prism doesn’t error when encountering a certificate that isn’t signed by Verisign or similar? Now that each window uses its own profile, it’s harder now to do that. Before I’d just make an application for CACert, import their root cert, and then run my own application.

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  83. Juan wrote on :

    The interesting thing would be: “select Tools > Convert Application to Website”. 😉

  84. mfinkle wrote on :

    @nikaro: Sorry, Prism is Intel only for now. I’ll look into making a universal build.

    @Datrio: Prism should work fine on an Intel MBP. We build on those machines. Please file a bug so we can figure out the problem. Remember to include the URL you were trying to convert.

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  86. droger wrote on :

    If Prism can use POW, it will be get a whole web app platform, just like google gears and AIR

  87. droger wrote on :

    hope mozilla can consider to let Prism suppot POW-Plain Old Webserver(Firefox Extensions)
    https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-CN/firefox/addon/3002
    And make POW can read offline site data which packed in .webapp files.

    Server Switcher can be supported with Prism,too
    https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-CN/firefox/addon/2409
    Maybe Added sync function for Prism.

    If other Firefox Extentions can be supported for Prism will be great in under list.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817

    https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-CN/firefox/addon/3896

    https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-CN/firefox/addon/684

    If can’t optimize for Prism, maybe atleast let it can install them.

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  93. Datrio wrote on :

    @nikaro: I’m getting the same problem on my Macbook, so it’s a problem on Intel, too. When I select to create a shortcut (anywhere) and click “Ok”, nothing happens. If I don’t choose to create one, I get a JavaScript error telling me to choose a location and try again.

    So sadly, I still can’t use Prism 🙁

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  99. arthuran wrote on :

    I used many time to try to config font in Thai Language, problem like Firefox. (= =”)

    I just write article about Prism in my Thai blog.
    http://arthuran.net/node/34/mozilla-prism

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  101. nikaro wrote on :

    ehm….. the Firefox extension is nice but…. in my G5 the only thing thai it doe’s when i click ok in the settings windows is freeze itself. also the extension is only for intel macs?

  102. nikaro wrote on :

    the standalone version 0.9 for mac works only with the intel macs? i ask it because my G5 refuse to run it, it tell’s me that it’s an intel only application

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  105. Travis wrote on :

    What is the setting to enable the title of the app to just be the title of the webpage?

    I have a google reader prism and the app title is “Google Reader” instead of “Google Reader (10)”, where it shows the unread count in parens like it does in firefox.

  106. mfinkle wrote on :

    Yes, I was also failing to download and install from AMO, but it seems to be working now. Caching issue?

  107. Al Billings wrote on :

    I’m getting an invalid hash on OS X as well when I try to download the extension.

  108. David Naylor wrote on :

    I’m getting an invalid file hash when I try downloading/installing the extension.

  109. Trackback from Itinéraire Libre on :

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  113. funTomas wrote on :

    I dare to bet this will become the most favorite extension to Firefox. It’s the innovation that crosses desktop/web apps bridge. I’m looking forward using it.