Mozilla and Adobe are fighting for the honors of hosting the unity of the web and the desktop.Google Gears may have started the conversation with offline access but Mozilla & Adobe understand how users work. Whether it's an icon on your desktop, your quick launch toolbar or your start menu, that's where all of your most critical applications sit - just one click away.
Both Mozilla's Prism and Adobe's AIR claim to integrate the web platform into the desktop experience while also increasing the capabilities of those apps by adding functionality to the Web itself, such as providing support for offline data storage and access to 3D graphics hardware. Who can do it better - Adobe or Mozilla - we have yet to see but so far I think it's a draw.
Either way, this gets me one step deeper to leveraging webapps for richer conversations – offline and online with my customers.
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you might also want to check out http://jnext.org for a very simple method of inegrating the Web with the desktop. If extensions for it will continue to be added it can become an invaluable tool
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