If earlier I had someone say that reading e-mail through a Web interface, I felt sorry for this man, and I immediately included the program of "literacy" and explained that the so-read e-mail is not very reasonable. Now that the Web services class Gmail and Google Calendar, the line between Web and desktop applications already quite visible. I present to you a new initiative mozilla Foundation to create software that separates a web service from the traditional browser window and turns it into a hybrid of desktop software and web service. Software from Mozilla Labs is working while running Windows in a test mode and is called Prism.
Generally, Prism - is nothing more than an application to create a shortcut to run the Firefox web application window devoid of all standard browser. So working with the web service you are using its built-in navigation - no address bar, navigation buttons and other unnecessary elements. Although everything here is very highly configurable (see. screenshot):
Here are a few examples.
Gmail - in spite of the long-awaited emergence of IMAP, a stationary PC to work anyway convenient web interface due to glitches in the present implementation of IMAP with the Russian language in encodings other than UTF-8 and the general slowness. It was found that the internal navigation Gmail is more than enough :)
google Calendar - a similar situation, as is the case with Gmail.
Remember The Milk - this service is used to manage tasks, and with Prism it works better than any software!
And finally, about the work of the social network Facebook with Prism - great!
Be sure to try Prism, if still squeamish about Web services as the main tools for email, business, calendar, etc.
download Prism possible to the official blog of Mozilla Labs.