Mozilla Prism
I just found out about this project on the Mozilla labs site.
What is this project all about? Well it can create a desktop application from basically any web application. I just moved my Gmail onto my desktop. That’s quite something.
Their next step will be to integrate Prism with Firefox (3.0?)and then the user will be able to just go into the menu and choose “Convert into application”.
Right now this is just a demo, a project, a showcase of the XUL platform, but interesting things are foreseeable in the future.
Some good thoughts about this project can be found on Mike Chambers blog.
In addition to using Prism itself to make a desktop web application, I’ve contributed an experimental Prism Bookmarklet to also “refract” web apps into Prism Desktop apps. So, one can use a web app to make a desktop app of a web app