Mark Finkle: WebRunner becomes Prism - A Mozilla Labs Project

Today, WebRunner is becoming a Mozilla Labs project. We are also rebranding WebRunner as Prism, see the announcement for more details. Alex Faaborg also has a post covering some of the user experience goals for Prism. Mozilla Labs gives us access to a user feedback forum, support infrastructure and some great resources for planning, designing and implementing features. In addition to the name change, there are some technical changes that might affect current WebRunner users: Application identifiers are changing from ?webrunner? to ?prism? - Besides the executable name change, this means that the profile folder is located under a ?Prism? folder and the ID used by extensions changed to ?prism@developer.mozilla.org? Any desktop shortcuts made with previous versions will continue to work as along as you keep the previous version of WebRunner installed. Bundles (*.webapp) files will continue to work with either version. Perhaps the simplest thing to do is to uninstall the current WebRunner, install the new Prism and remake your shortcuts using the orginal webapp bundles. Prism 0.8 also has some neat new features. We have been trying to collect the bugs and feature requests out of the feedback and blog posts. Here are some things that have been added or fixed for the this release: CSS themes - Bundles now support common (all platforms) and OS specific CSS theme overrides. view original article
Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:24:54 +0200

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