Fluid for Mac
Fluid is a neat Mac tool that builds “site specific browsers”. What does that mean? Well, it means if you have a site that you always have open (say Gmail, Basecamp, or Harvest) you can use Fluid to create a stand-alone app that is a dedicated browser just for that site.
Why would anybody do that? It keeps the tab-count to a minimum in your main web browser and because Fluid’s apps are stand-alone they run independently of your browser so if you’re watching sixteen Flight of the Conchords videos simultaneously and your Firefox takes a nosedive it won’t take your email, to-do lists or timesheets with it.
Fluid apps use the ultra-stable and generally reliable webkit engine — same one that Safari is built on so it’s fully road-tested on the Mac.
Sexy-fy your Fluid apps with nice high-res icons from the Flickr Fluid icon pool.
Apr 29, 2008 @ 5:03 pm
Mozilla has something similar to this called Prism, which has the added benefit of working on mac, windows and linux and is based on Webrunner, which seems to be the new name for Mozilla’s XULRunner. http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/11/prism-prototype-now-available-on-mac-and-linux/
Apr 30, 2008 @ 10:33 am
@Mark – that’s very cool, thanks!