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Re:Mozilla Chromeless: making desktop apps with web technolo... by emehrkay on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @08:48AM (#2170189)
Who remembers a few years back when Adobe Air was first making waves and Mozilla introduced Prism and Adobe's pr team hit the web to discredit it? Good times

Anyway, we've developed an internal app at my job targeting webkit on os x and we required the use of fluid, it was very nice not to have to worry about cross-browser issues. Shout out to Air as I understand and Prism (now Chromeless), more people should use this tech

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Re:Mozilla Chromeless: making desktop apps with web technolo... by mgutz on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @11:09AM (#2170709)
We're doing the same using Google Chrome Packaged Applications, which is based on Webkit. We use FireBreath NPAPI extensions for any OS specific enhancements. The end result is noticeably faster than AIR and less resources.

Chromeless sounds like a good idea but Google's V8 engine has been spanking Mozilla's engine for a while now.

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