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April 5, 2007
Making web apps more desktop-like, or, RealWebApp 0.1
A year and a half or so ago, I saw a demo that bsmedberg did that he called HTMLRunner. It had a copy of GMail running in its own XULRunner process. More recently, mfinkle has been doing more in that vein with his WebRunner app.
I decided to play around a bit and see what it felt like to do something similar as part of Firefox. The result is
RealWebApp-0.1.xpi.
It's very simple, and the UI is less than optimal because dealing with the bookmarks UI from an extension is rather painful. To use it, put a bookmark to any page that you want to use as a webapp in your toolbar. To invoke the app, select "Open As Application" from the context menu. This will open the app as a chromeless window, and if you have Firefox set to open windows in tabs, new tabs won't be randomly injected into your web app.
There are lots more tweaks and things that I'm interested in experimenting with, but I like using this enough in it's current state that I thought it would be worth releasing a 0.1. Let me know your thoughts...
Posted by dmose at 2:01 PM | Comments (2)
April 3, 2007
The End of Privacy
jwz blogged about this article a while back, and it came up again in conversation at work today, so I thought I'd repost for the benefit of those who haven't seen it. Very interesting reading. I'm intrigued by the rock-n-roll analogy, in particular, the part about the old folks who saw it as a threat being right.
Posted by dmose at 3:59 PM | Comments (4)