MECHENG401:Research:MozillaPrism

Summary

Prism is pretty much a chopped down firefox which can be customised for use with a paticular site. It probably wont help us much with functionality.

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Prism is built on firefox, and like RIA's is somewhat of a website/application mashup. Uses XULRunner. Pros:

• Source is available http://svn.mozilla.org/projects/webrunner/

Cons:

• Seems rather immature.
• Quick look; no mention of the caching/localised database (wich I can see on GGears). Could be part of XULRunner.

I need to take a more in-depth look. It might do the trick but it seems to be more of a taylored browser for your web page, than something that will do the synchronisation.

• http://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6665 - firefox plugin
• http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Prism