Mozilla's answer to Adobe AIR with Prism
Mozilla released Prism, an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop. When invoked, these applications run in their own window.
"Unlike Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, we’re not building a proprietary platform to replace the web", claim Prism developers team.
Prism is not a new platform. It’s the web platform integrated into the desktop experience. Web developers don’t have to target it separately since any application that can run in a modern standards-compliant web browser can run in Prism. Prism is built on Firefox, so it supports rich internet technologies like HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and <canvas> and runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Prism is open source and is based on Webrunner.
Prism is the first of the series of experiments Mozilla Labs is launching to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models.
Yet, there seems to arise a discussion on the Mozilla Labs blog where Mike Chambers from Adobe AIR team comments on the new application.
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