Using Standalone Prism

[DanyAlejandro]

Many ppl don't get it because they just think of it as a web browser. But what if you need to provide a stand-alone HTML5+JavaScript portable desktop application? that's where this jewel shines, not for youtube for god's sake!

[goraxer]

.net code :

Form1.webbrowser.navigate = (Textbox1.text)

This is how this Program works XD

[WebDesignVC]

This is not an application, If you want to use it with twitter or facebook, simply log in to your account, then drag the browser icon to your desktop... This will save you time and give you all the features of prism..

[tehedx]

This is so nice for stubborn customers who just NOT want to move from Internet Explorer and complain that our webapps are broken or slow. Just pretend it really is a stand-alone application and they'll install it :)

[AriesAprilAngel]

not helpful because I can't even get that pop-up you have! :/

[trust30000]

i downloaded the standallone one but i could not get enything on the desktop you just have a folder that says prism.exe and other stuff. even if i click the exe nothing changes.whatsthe problem windows7 x64bit mem 4gb c2d2.66

[Francesco0991]

I just don't get the point of this. Minitube is a marvellous example of a desktop application, that borrows contents from somewhere in the web (YouTube), but ADDS something of its own to the experience of using them. This seems nothing but the skeleton of a browser...

[raymanuva]

use Chrome people.... create application shortcut, thats all.

[Macintosh3745]

@raymanuva noo... you press da spanner and toolz and then create application shortcut

[15Pujols15]

Narrator voice: "Luke!, I'm your father!"

lol

[darklordjuan]

I find it very useful for installing web applications and making them look like they are a simple app, personally I think it's better to have a good old shortcut that the user click than tell them to open a browser and get to an address. Yes, in most cases a normal program is better, but it is one more tool at our disposal.

[Aethonic]

Is there an installer or something? I found a link to a version from 2007 that had an installer, but the one I downloaded recently doesn't have one. I mean, I don't *need* one, but it says that it is supposed to install to my start menu. Eh, whatever, the extension works fine anyways, and I'll probably have the browser open to get the URL anyways.

[TutorialsForYou12]

I tried this with YouTube on Windows Vista Home Premium and when I try to log in or watch video, it opens in the default web browser (which is, in my case Firefox). Is this meant to happen or can I fix this?

Liyan

[Aethonic]

Prism opens it in a browser because thinks it is a link to an external site. Actually, I'm not even sure if Prism has Flash by default, that could also be a problem.

[alexhernandez]

HTML Applications (HTA) has been around for ages, but are very limited in XSS. May be prism can act different?

[kanzo90]

useful for quake live :]

[DungLoad]

The main reason it's useful (to ME anyway) is because 1) it's really fast and 2) (more important) I can open up my online task manager (toodledo) or calendar (google) without the distraction of the internet... a lot of us don't want to open the internet while we are working, it's a constant temptation and distraction....

[Animatronica]

isn't this just Chrome?

[gunitzpqm]

Chrome is just a browser.. this is a website if it were an app on your desktop. You can only open the one website just as if it were firefox. but with this, it's easy to get to and ready when you need it. Very useful if you're on a slow machine and you only want to check one website.

[caltd]

This is (as I understand it) a similar idea as mentioned in the Google Chrome browser.

The main attraction for me is that you have a separate process that is not tied in to your main web browsing application, and therefore is not subject to freezing/crashing of that main application.

[ifallenv6]

if you want to know more, check out the site and what not.

I think this is going to be a good step for the net because it allows our online lives and favorite sites to be more intigrated with the rest of our computer.

[leo61611616]

What good is this??? or better why use this?

Why would you use this instead of just opening a site in your BROWSER?

Nothing good in it except for minimizing the application to the system tray, which Firefox would not. A similar thing from Google as well which is known as Googe Apps.

[corduroy99]

what good is this? you already can just open youtube in your browser.

as for other sites, would've been cool 15 years ago when ISP's charged you by the hour. now YOU CAN JUST OPEN YOUR BROWSER and be connected as long as you want. .....

[ziggeman]

I agree.I think its mostly useless.Why not put a webpage shortcut on the desktop instead and save discspace..? I often use my laptop with no mouse connected and I found the app. JM Hotwords 2.0 useful instead. Its a tray app where U reference the programapplication or webpage you want to start up. Just type in the word on top of the desktop area and the webpage or programapplication will start up in the background.

[cbluvsedith]

It is useful for the people that just wants an easy access with a single-click to web-based email, Google Docs, and stuff like that, and since there are no toolbars or any buttons at all, it's useful for the people that just wants to use web-based email or online document editing as a computer program.

People could also do that with a simple browser but some people just don't like typing the internet address, or having 3 to 5 clicks just to get into a website that they mostly go to everyday.

[2882890]

Not only that, it runs it outside of the browser. IT's not reliant on Firefox directly, so you have a few tabs of flash content, Java content, fancy table content open in Firefox and one of them causes a crash. Well your GMail opened in prism is gonna stay and the browser will go down, same with every new prism page opened.

[cbluvsedith]

I agree. Google Chrome and IE uses separate processes to use additional tabs so when one tab crashes, the whole browser doesn't crash. One problem though is that it uses all kinds of RAM when opening multiple tabs. It's just like having 10 IEXPLORER.EXEs opened when having 10 tabs on IE. I use M Firefox because tabs open much faster, but one disadvantage is that it crashes the whole browser when one tab crashes (your statement). I haven't use Prism lately because I use the WLMail app on Win XP.

[blogx113]

you cant here sound

[stillbryant]

so will there still be cache or cookies then?

[KurdoFighter]

This reminds me of Java Webstart but for webpages.

[stefvarin]

We've been able to do exactly the same thing for monhs with Google Chrome's "Create application shortcuts"... or am i missing something?

[mwxiao]

It's the same.

[Spyder810]

Useless for websites, and anything else usually has its own application.

It's kind of like cavemen reinventing fire with bigger sticks, may look better, but the sticks just take up too much room in the cave.

[BxxxxxN]

If you use the standalone app of Prism, is the browser still Firefox, or what? Whats the difference between standalone prism or firefox extension prism?

[devidlomb]

no one

[Mchlpl]

There's not much point in using it for internet applications IMHO. However imagine you have an web based intranet application. Here using Prism makes a lot of sense.

You get rid of web browser's gui (you might not want 'back' button to ba available in your application for example). You separate application and web browser sessions (browser crashes but your application is still running) etc.

[ghostsurfer9]

Nicely put!

[drmnys]

So do u mean its useful if ur using web based apps like Open Office or web based Email? Even then, I guess Internet speeds & browsers r pretty fast so u wouldnt need a separate app to a access the sites. I really dont think this would kick off.

[Macintosh3745]

@Mchlpl exactly!!!

[sunburn86]

This is like that option in Chrome, i like it. I don't Have to change my Browser :D

[arzo2000]

Ah, so basically it just creates a desktop shortcut icon and makes it look like an app. I don't find a use for it really. Or maybe I still don't get it :)

[chipinsalsa]

Yeah, that's pretty much it. It's useful for things like radio sites and twitter.

[cbluvsedith]

I use Mozila Prism to make Windows Live Hotmail as a web-based app. I made a shortcut into my Xubuntu desktop. It's very fast! I use this instead of an email client because the email clients makes all my email messages get sent to the deleted folder by itself on its web-based Windows Live Hotmail for some reason. It is useful for me. (=

[arzo2000]

So what is Prism used for? I don't get it...

[chipinsalsa]

It takes any website on the internet (such as facebook) and turns it into an application.

[esieradzki]

It's very useful for web application developers. For example I'm developing a webapp for non tech savvy people. It's a complex app that runs slowly in IE and blazingly fast in FF. Using Prism I can turn my webapp into a desktop application very easily. My end users don't have to worry about upgrading to FF - it just works :)

very useful product for ppl like me ;)

[aiklarung]

Hey does it make a web app into a stand-alone FF-like exe?

Because, afaik, FF 3.6 will have CSS3 support, and it looks so beautiful for a web app, but IE wouldn't read it.