* Just kidding.
I do have a problem with some of your comments though and I've concluded that either you're seriously uninformed or you're intentionally misleading your readers.
In response to a couple of commenters who correctly pointed out that Adobe's Air is a proprietary end-run around the Web, you responded by trying to paint Mozilla's Prism as equally guilty. You said:
>Well, by that definition, then Mozilla is also trying to
>"replace the web" as they are adding extensions and
>functionality within Prism that will not run within web
>browsers.
We have indeed said "we're also working to increase the capabilities of those apps by adding functionality to the _WEB_ itself...."
These are core Mozilla (Firefox) features that Prism will inherit. Offline data storage is being defined in the WHATWG standardization process as a component of HTML5 and will be included in all relevant Mozilla-based applications including Firefox. This SQLite-based off-line API will also get implemented in other browsers and will be an open _Web_ feature.
For you to just assert that these things will not run within a Web browser is either uninformed horseshit or calculated FUD spreading.
Prism is _not_ a new platform. It's the Web platform -- exactly and precisely. And as the Web evolves (with our help) so will the Prism platform.
Adobe Air _is_ a new closed platform that happens to use some Web languages but requires an entire new closed runtime that locks developers and users into a single vendor.
Air is a proprietary solution. It bears repeating. Air locks developers and users into a single vendor. That is pretty much the opposite of the open Web. Because it includes support for Web languages does not make it any less proprietary. That's not saying it's bad or evil. That's just what it is.
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