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Mozilla takes on Silverlight and AIR
USERS FED UP by Microsoft and Adobe hammering away at each other again with Silverlight versus AIR will take solace, or despair a bit more, with the news that Mozilla is also entering the field for closing the gap between online and offline apps.
The program is called Prism and is intended to address the problem thus described by Mozilla:
“Personal computing is currently in a state of transition. While traditionally users have interacted mostly with desktop applications, more and more of them are using web applications. But the latter often fit awkwardly into the document-centric interface of web browsers.”
Hang on a second you say, that’s exactly what Adobe and Microsoft are trying to do, isn’t it? But Mozilla is ahead of you.
“Unlike Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, we’re not building a proprietary platform to replace the web,” it says.
OK, so this is the one you go for if you don’t like politics and want to be a pure web type. However you will still have to download code. Mozilla already has a prototype if you want to try it.
Where will it go next? One smart idea Mozilla has is to integrate Prism with Firefox so users can make their favourite web apps desktop apps. µ
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With firefox becoming the browser monopoly of choice i believe turnabout is fair play. 

ime for sanctions against mozilla. Down with integration.
sounds anticompetitive???

ITS FREE
open source...
.....
get your head out of the sand
sanctions against mozilla?
web browsers in use
firefox 15% IE 80% 
mozzilla monopoly? your crazy
I don't see how this has ANYTHING to do with either of those technologies or anything you're talking about.

Prism is a program for taking a single web site and embedding it inside its own little simplified program. No extra functions, no browser overhead. Just treat a web service like it's its own program.

How does this have anything to do with Silverlight or AIR?
In response to the last comment.

Firefox? a monopoly? What a joke!
Uhm, web interacting with your desktop? didn't we already go through that disaster, it was called 'activex' and the interactions were called 'malware and viruses'
I've already been doing this with XULRunner, and now Moz comes along and invalidates all my hard work.

Good news is, I have less future hard work now. :-)
Ok ok ... so I went and stuck it on and it works a treat.

Actually it makes MS Internet Explorer look lame.

Plus its less prone to the nasties and looks and feels better.

How do I bloody uninstall Intenet Exloder then?

Damm malware !!

Go the Mo !!
I lol at the person calling this anti competative.

ROFL.

You, sir, are an idiot.

Mozilla is completely open source and free for one, meaning that they give themselves away for free, so it's not "competition".

Anyways, since it's open source and free, that means that anyone is allowed to just take whatever they want from Firefox and put it in their own program if they want.