Browser Plus
| Monday, April 21st, 2008 | --jr |
What is BrowserPlus?
Skylar Woodward spilled the beans a bit about it, but it's ok, he kinda wrote it. Naturally, since not much has been discussed about it, there's a lot of confusion. For one thing, it's not Yahoo! Gears. In all honesty, it could work rather nicely with Gears, since they both solve different problems. With Gears, it's "How do I make my pages work when the interweb isn't?" With BrowserPlus, it's "How do I extend things in and out of the browser?" In some respects, it's a plug in that makes it easier for you to interact with your desktop and browser as one app, but not tied to Windows or IE or being wrought of pure evil.
It's actually far harder to explain than it is to show in action. I've added it to my Mash Profile so you can see. (sorry, folks on linux aren't able to play quite yet.) You can see it with the Photodropper tool. It's pretty cool to play with, even with a few quirks i saw.
Yeah, I've made some changes to this post based on a dope slap from Skylar. Fact is, this is still kind of under wraps and the "official" stuff is coming out later. And, yeah, he's being cagey about it until then.