If you pay close attention here, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of fluid and the idea of SSB’s in general. I use apps for Remember the Milk (my current task management / GTD tool) and Google Reader extensively. Both of these sites support gears already for use offline (read: on airplanes). However, by using Fluid (based on Safari’s webkit), I had to forgo gears/offline access. Thus, when traveling, I’d taken to opening a tab in firefox for each of those sites (if I remembered, and as long as I didn’t need to otherwise restart firefox, etc).
Well, I just had a wonderful experience. I downloaded gears for safari, installed it… and instantly all of my fluid instances were gears enabled. Love it!
]]>As shown in the video, I think the best use for this new feature is in conjunction with iPhone sites. In the video, Tod shows creating an app for http://i.brightkite.com/. I've been using this to check-in on BrightKite. It's nice, unobtrusive and easy in lieu of BrightKite's own, native desktop apps.
My other favorite (pictured) is http://i.rememberthemilk.com/. Remember the Milk's iPhone app has a nice feature that the "Today" tasks list also shows overdue tasks (which I haven't figured out how to do in the standard web app).
More and more of my webapp usage is moving to fluid these days. I can't say enough good things about this app. And google gears support is coming!!
]]>I have two web apps that have become an absolute core staple of my daily routine: Remember the Milk (for TODO management) and Google Reader (for RSS feeds). Both of these are pretty "heavy" web apps (containing lots of JS/AJAX/etc) and I had been running Firefox extensions for both which ultimately weighed down my main browser (which is where I do primary development, etc). Having them as separate applications lets me keep Firefox running (a little) leaner, and I also get pretty icons and the ability to "cmd-tab" between them.
The coolest part, however, is that Fluid has implemented icon updating on a few sites (google reader being one of them) to show the number of unread items. Check it:
Now, if I can just get Google Gears for Webkit working (for offline support for google reader & RTM) I'll be one happy camper.
The desktop / web app convergence continues...
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