Using Standalone Prism

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

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.

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.

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.

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. (=

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  ;)

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.

useful for quake live :]

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.

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....