Lions and Tigers and EU MozCamp… Oh My!
October 23, 2008 – 3:07 pmI’m in Madrid right now for a couple of days of R&R (in theory, at least) before heading to Barcelona tomorrow for EU MozCamp. I’ll be running a session on Prism. The timing is auspicious since we’re at something of a crossroads with the product. It doesn’t have any obvious official standing inside of Mozilla since graduating from Labs, but it does kick ass (in my totally objective, unbiased opinion). I’ll be talking a bit about what we’ve been working on over the past few months, what the current architecture looks like and possible plans for the future.
I’m very keen to hear from others where they think the product should be heading and what sort of organization would be needed to keep some momentum behind it. I feel strongly that Prism can be of great value to Mozilla, and I’m curious to find out if anyone else out there (besides Mark, of course) agrees with me.
I’m also looking forward to attacks by rabid beers [ed note: I meant bears, of course, an obvious Freudian slip], vehicles plowing willy-nilly into air-conditioning units, epic rockslides and all the other mundane occurrences we’ve come to expect at Mozilla community events.
10 Responses to “Lions and Tigers and EU MozCamp… Oh My!”
Add support for packaging and usage of arbitrary local files that can be used under chrome (such as for the main app URL) and I would be ecstatic.
By enefekt on Oct 23, 2008
I would love to see Prism catch up with Fluid on the Mac. At least for looking at GMail. Fluid shows how many unread messages you have on the Dock icon, like Thunderbird does. But it even gets the number right and updates it as more emails come in (even Thunderbird does not get this part right and Prism doesn’t try). This feature alone will keep me using Fluid over Prism, even though I really like Mozilla products.
By Bob on Oct 23, 2008
I really like Prism and I’m launching a site soon, where Prism will play a major role.
The biggest problem I’ve got with Prism is that it looks rather unprofessionell to point end users to wikis and blog postings to download stuff. Being a first-class citizen in the Mozilla ecosystem would help a lot IMO.
By Christian on Oct 23, 2008
Is it compatible with current nightlies? If it is I’d like to see Refractor compatibility bumped up, and preferably, its version synced with Prism. Oh, and renamed to Prism.
Thanks!
By Percy on Oct 23, 2008
As that’s you, the bears turned into beers on purpose, I suppose.
By Axel Hecht on Oct 23, 2008
Axel,
Even I don’t know what I mean half the time, but I amended the text to keep the bears in the picture as well.
By Matthew Gertner on Oct 23, 2008
We’re finding Prism to be very useful as an alternative to Firefox for those corporate customers who don’t want to install another web browser, but are happy to install a “runtime environment” instead
But I do agree with Christian – it needs a professional looking download page, rather than just links in blogs and wikis.
By MarkC on Oct 24, 2008
Indeed, an official download location and some semi-regular builds/updates would be really cool.
Perhaps a formalized standard or set of conventions for extending prism in an orderly way? One area where I think prism could be useful is for running an extension that, for whatever reason, should not be included in my daily browsing profile.
By Mukunda on Nov 17, 2008
A long-term solution that would be really cool:
user-selectable functionality that would allow me to have anything from totally bare-bones prism all the way up to full firefox functionality in a fairly granular way.
If all of Firefox’s features were just extensions to a very VERY basic “core” then we could just use profiles for each “prism” instance.
By Mukunda on Nov 22, 2008
Beers get rabid? Oh you meant bears. Yeah, I get ya.
By Plumbing Provo on Oct 26, 2009