Major Update to Prism, First Prototype of Browser Integration

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By: mfinkle

On: March 7th, 2008 Posted In: Mozilla Labs

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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.

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108 Responses to “Major Update to Prism, First Prototype of Browser Integration”

  1. funTomas

    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.

    March 7th, 2008 at 10:12 am
  2. David Naylor

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

    March 7th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
  3. Al Billings

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

    March 7th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
  4. mfinkle

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

    March 7th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
  5. Travis

    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.

    March 7th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
  6. nikaro

    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

    March 7th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
  7. nikaro

    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?

    March 7th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
  8. arthuran

    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

    March 7th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
  9. Datrio

    @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 :(

    March 8th, 2008 at 5:51 am
  10. droger

    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.

    March 8th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
  11. droger

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

    March 8th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
  12. mfinkle

    @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.

    March 8th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
  13. Juan

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

    March 8th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
  14. Kevin Jordan

    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.

    March 10th, 2008 at 6:56 am
  15. Lars K Jensen

    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

    March 10th, 2008 at 7:37 am
  16. Matt

    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.

    March 10th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
  17. Sherwin

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

    thanks!

    March 10th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
  18. Jeremy

    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!

    March 11th, 2008 at 8:23 am
  19. Brian W

    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.

    March 11th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
  20. tony

    Please be able to hide into the system tray

    March 11th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
  21. Ron

    “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?

    March 13th, 2008 at 8:29 am
  22. john refano

    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?

    March 14th, 2008 at 10:00 am
  23. rion d'luz

    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

    March 14th, 2008 at 10:42 am
  24. Work from Home Guru

    I have no doubt that this extension will become very useful. I haven’t yet tried it, but will be shortly. I love the convert website to application feature. Nice work guys

    March 18th, 2008 at 9:42 am
  25. Braintrove.com

    Sounds interesting. Look forward to seeing the final product.

    March 21st, 2008 at 12:01 pm
  26. Marc Balmer

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

    March 25th, 2008 at 4:25 am
  27. Steve Lee

    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

    March 25th, 2008 at 11:12 am
  28. Jake Lockley

    I’m confused, you do realize all you are doing is becoming IE don’t you? How many times do you have to re-invent the wheel? Just use HTA files instead of reinventing technology that’s been around for over 10 years. Oh wait, I see cross platform, want something that works on the smaller niches too. It might be quicker and easier just to use Flash and AIR, or JAVA or widgets, or

    March 27th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
  29. diş beyazlatma

    teşekkürler

    March 29th, 2008 at 5:08 am
  30. ben

    thanks

    March 29th, 2008 at 5:33 am
  31. qlearner

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

    March 30th, 2008 at 11:23 am
  32. gego

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

    make does not work
    [ make Makefile.in
    make: Nothing to be done for `Makefile.in’. ]

    April 30th, 2008 at 4:52 am

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    […] 关于Prism的介绍，除了官方网站的英文介绍之外，还可以参考中文的Nelson的游乐场，主要就是一个以Firefox为基础的Web离线应用，可以在输入网址后，将WebApp转为应用程序，但是dcat这边分析地很好，如果只是将网站搬下来，的确是有点跛脚的方式。 […]

    March 25th, 2008 at 2:45 am
  54.   Prism for Firefox 扩展 by 我是妖怪，廖宇雷是我的艺名

    […] 相关网站：http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/03/major-update-to-prism-first-prototype-of-browser-integration/ […]

    March 26th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
  55. 整合Firefox延伸功能：Prism未来新的离线开发基础

    […] 关于Prism的介绍，除了官方网站的英文介绍之外，还可以参考中文的Nelson的游乐场，主要就是一个以Firefox为基础的Web离线应用，可以在输入网址后，将WebApp转为应用程序，但是dcat这边分析地很好，如果只是将网站搬下来，的确是有点跛脚的方式。 […]

    March 27th, 2008 at 3:39 am
  56. Blog de Juan Vidal: Compartir la información es el primer paso hacía una comunidad...

    […] este momento Mozilla está impulsando dos nuevos proyectos: Prism y […]

    March 28th, 2008 at 1:16 am
  57. What’s at the end of the browser rainbow? at The Content Factory

    […] big news, I realise - Google Gears is already laying that road, and Mozilla is doing its part with Prism. But nothing is quite seamless as of yet: you either need to install an extension, or run a […]

    March 28th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
  58. Everyone, everywhere, wants to go offline : sparkplug 9

    […] saw this article on Webware about Prism, which is technology for extending applications beyond the browser. Yes, there are times when the […]

    March 28th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
  59. Mozilla Prism integrated in Firefox 3.0 | eyelogic - weblog - personal blog of Wanja Stier

    […] Read the full post on Mozilla Labs Filed under Firefox having Leave a Comment […]

    March 29th, 2008 at 5:45 am
  60. Firefox 4 will push out the edges–Firefox-火狐浏览器中文网

    […] Prism is Mozilla’s shot at busting apps out of the browser. Part of the Prism project is making the browsing core available to apps developers so they can build products like Zimbra Desktop (review) that are essentially Web apps, but that don’t look like it. […]

    March 29th, 2008 at 9:00 am
  61. Fireofox 4? Sarà più evoluto

    […] Prism è una applicazione che dovrebbe permette l’esplorazione off-line del web. Il concetto che sta alla base di questo progetto è di rendere qualsiasi sito e di trasformarlo in una applicazione da poter eseguire anche quando non si è connessi. Tutto questo dovrebbe essere possibile quando sarà pronto HTML 5. […]

    March 30th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
  62. Firefox 4? Sarà più evoluto | Il Blog di NonSoloP2P

    […] Prism è una applicazione che dovrebbe permette l’esplorazione off-line del web. Il concetto che sta alla base di questo progetto è di rendere qualsiasi sito e di trasformarlo in una applicazione da poter eseguire anche quando non si è connessi. Tutto questo dovrebbe essere possibile quando sarà pronto HTML 5. […]

    March 30th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
  63. TuxJournal.net » Le novità di Firefox 4

    […] Prism è una nuova tecnologia orientata al desktop che darà all’utente la possibilità di poter utilizzare i servizi web-based direttamente off-line. Finalmente, si avvererà il sogno di poter usufruire, ad esempio, della vostra web-mail senza dover accedere alla rete. Inoltre, combinando insieme la potenza di Prism ed il prossimo standard HTML 5, servizi come Google Gears o Silverlight diventerebbero immediatamente obsoleti. […]

    March 30th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
  64. Firefox 4.0 - Look Beyond IE8 and Firefox 3.0 - But not in 2008 « Tech-me Weblog

    […] favorite web apps in their browser, on their desktop of choice, or in both places,” revealed Mark Finkle, Mozilla Platform […]

    March 31st, 2008 at 12:47 am
  65. Area51 » Blog Archive » Firefox 4

    […] Prism è una applicazione che dovrebbe permette l’esplorazione off-line del web. Il concetto che sta alla base di questo progetto è di rendere qualsiasi sito e di trasformarlo in una applicazione da poter eseguire anche quando non si è connessi. Tutto questo dovrebbe essere possibile quando sarà pronto HTML 5. […]

    March 31st, 2008 at 12:03 pm
  66. Basic Thinking Blog | Google: April, April

    […] in der Tat eines Tages auf gleicher Augenhöhe mit Google stehen. Erste Ansätze mit Prism und an den künftigen Plänen mit Firefox sieht man bereits, wo es langgehen könnte. […]

    April 1st, 2008 at 4:13 am
  67. Mozilla Prism · Luna

    […] por esta entrada de Mozilla Labs para conocer toda la información y descargar […]

    April 2nd, 2008 at 6:37 am
  68. Firefox 4–Firefox-火狐浏览器中文网

    […] Prism is Mozilla’s shot at busting apps out of the browser. Part of the Prism project is making the browsing core available to apps developers so they can build products like Zimbra Desktop (review) that are essentially Web apps, but that don’t look like it. […]

    April 2nd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
  69. Putting people first » Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser

    […] Prism is Mozilla’s shot at busting apps out of the browser, turning it into an app that can run directly from the desktop. […]

    April 3rd, 2008 at 5:49 am
  70. Mozilla Prism

    […] Plus d’explication Ici … […]

    April 7th, 2008 at 6:43 am
  71. Prism extension for Firefox: Treat any web app as a desktop app · ordaso.com

    […] has released an updated version of Prism, an application that lets open web applications like Gmail, Google Docs, or Zoho Writer in a […]

    April 7th, 2008 at 9:17 am
  72. dt_autoblog » Blog Archive » Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser

    […] Prism is Mozilla’s shot at busting apps out of the browser, turning it into an app that can run directly from the desktop. […]

    April 7th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
  73. Run FreshBooks like a desktop app with Prism

    […] Prism, Mozilla Labs’ browser integration experiment. Prism, based on the Firefox web browser, lets […]

    April 8th, 2008 at 5:04 am
  74. Putting People First in italiano » Firefox 4 andrà oltre i limiti del browser

    […] Prism è il tentativo di Mozilla di portare fuori dal browser le applicazioni, trasformandole in applicazioni che operino direttamente dal desktop. […]

    April 9th, 2008 at 3:29 am
  75. standalone applications from web-apps with Prism | beecherbowers.com

    […] development, you can download the standalone program and a Firefox 3(beta) plugin version from the Mozilla Labs site. « CDFreaks releases PerfectRip for audio […]

    May 1st, 2008 at 3:50 am
  76. Mozilla Prism | arthuran.net

    […] Major Update to Prism, First Prototype of Browser Integration [Mozilla Labs] Add new comment […]

    May 13th, 2008 at 9:14 am

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