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Are Site Specific Browsers any useful?
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It seems Safari 4 will sport the option to 'Save as Web Application', albeit there are yet available browsers aimed to work this way (Fluid, Mozilla Prism…) so I wonder, is this just a web social pity that serves no real purpose but to glorify tabs, or would it be good for and mainly business, intranets…??
To me (the untrained eye) it is like going back to the 80's when you had to buy the handheld pocket-sized Game&Watch for every game you wanted to play, sure they were funny, until the GAMEBOY arrived…
I guess Apple marketing is going to enlighten us, but I don't get it -yet-, mind you even the name is wrong, a site specific browser?, it yells oxymoron.
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The main advantage is that they are running as different processes, so if one crashes (and thanks to Flash Safari hangs quite often for me), the others are unaffected. If Safari never crashed it would be hardly more than fancy bookmarks. So if Safari supported bookmarks with QuickLook-icons that remembered window positions and log-in passwords, you'd get the same.
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I don't use them myself, but I can see it being useful for some Web applications. Like using Yahoo! Mail like a real email client rather than just another tab in Safari, or similar for Google Calendar or whatnot.
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A site-specific browser seems to defeat the point of web standards.
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Originally Posted by mduell 
A site-specific browser seems to defeat the point of web standards.
Erm…how?
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I can't get Hotmail to work with Fluid, so Firefox has become my SSB for that.
Facebook for iPhone makes a cool SSB.
(Last edited by lpkmckenna; Jun 11, 2008 at 10:55 PM.
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