Comments on: Coming soon to AjaxLife

By: Ines Martins

Ines Martins — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:37:41 +0000

Wow! It is very cool! I am loving it!

By: Rheta Shan

Rheta Shan — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:49:13 +0000

Katharine,

you keep impressing me like that and I’ll end up praying in your direction five times a day Great, great work.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:27:25 +0000

Great idea of implementing Fluid! I can’t wait to use that.

By: Katharine Berry

Katharine Berry — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:30:46 +0000

Yes. Except Prism runs Gecko, Fluid runs WebKit. Mozilla is slow, WebKit is fast. Prism is ugly, Fluid is passable. Prism doesn’t let you do fancy things like growl notifications, Fluid does.

Overall, Prism (and, indeed, Firefox) fails on OS X.

To quote from their site:

Fluid seems awfully similar to Mozilla Prism. What gives? Fluid was very much inspired by the excellent Mozilla Prism project, Adobe Air, and other, earlier Site Specific Browsers like Bubbles. Many people think Prism was the first product in this category, but remember, Prism itself was preceded by several other SSB products. Fluid’s goal is to be the best, most native-feeling SSB for Mac OS X Leopard. Prism is cross-platform, which is a huge benefit for lots of users. However, many Mac users prefer a more tightly-integrated, Mac-like SSB application. That’s Fluid’s niche. Fluid is a thoroughly native, Cocoa Mac OS X application. No compromises or least-common-denominator tradeoffs.

By: Smiley Barry

Smiley Barry — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:03:46 +0000

Sorry to double-comment, but I forgot to add: not including some features, isn't Fluid a little similar to Mozilla Prism?

By: Smiley Barry

Smiley Barry — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:55:53 +0000

Wow! That’s great Katharine! Inventory management is one of only a few missing to make this a full SL client. (of course, not including graphics and movement)