Acid 3 is worthless says Rob Sayre's from Mozilla
Friday, March 28, 2008
I was looking over the spreadsheet covering Mozilla’s Acid3 failures, and it struck me that very few of the fixes would substantially improve the Web or the browser. They are bugs and they will be fixed (except maybe SMIL… wtf?), but they don’t impact authors or users at all. Looks mostly like an opportunity for grandstanding about “commitment to standards.” I think testing createNodeIterator while text nodes don’t interoperate is both misguided and hypocritical.
Besides, commitment to standards is strong at Mozilla, where we don’t constantly seek to rubber stamp our own implementation.
Rob Sayre's Mozilla Blog
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Mozilla releases Prism plugin for Firefox 3
Saturday, March 8, 2008
So what is Prism: The Prism Wiki explains it as:
Prism is a simple XULRunner based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is based on a concept called Site Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application. It doesn’t have the menus, toolbars and accoutrements of a normal web browser. Some people have called it a "distraction free browser" because none of the typical browser chrome is used. An SSB also has a tighter integration with the OS and desktop than a typical web application running through a web browser.
Once you install the Prism Plugin (which is supported on Firefox 3 only), you'd see a new menu named "Convert Website to application" under tools menu.
Converting your choice of webpage to an application would create a shortcut like, which shows the application is nothing but a firefox rendered offline page.
"I:\Program Files\Minefield\firefox.exe" -app application.ini -override "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\WebApps\slashdot@prism.app\override.ini" -webapp slashdot@prism.app
And finally when you'd run the application this is what you'll get. In case if the internet is down I suppose you should see the last fetched page
Prism is a simple XULRunner based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is based on a concept called Site Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application. It doesn’t have the menus, toolbars and accoutrements of a normal web browser. Some people have called it a "distraction free browser" because none of the typical browser chrome is used. An SSB also has a tighter integration with the OS and desktop than a typical web application running through a web browser.
Once you install the Prism Plugin (which is supported on Firefox 3 only), you'd see a new menu named "Convert Website to application" under tools menu.
Converting your choice of webpage to an application would create a shortcut like, which shows the application is nothing but a firefox rendered offline page.
"I:\Program Files\Minefield\firefox.exe" -app application.ini -override "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\WebApps\slashdot@prism.app\override.ini" -webapp slashdot@prism.app
And finally when you'd run the application this is what you'll get. In case if the internet is down I suppose you should see the last fetched page
Labels: Firefox 3, Firefox plugins, prism
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