WebRunner is Now Prism and an Official Mozilla Labs Project

If you are a regular reader of Planet Mozilla this is not news to you. However, if you are not a reader but you are interested in seeing how Web Applications will evolve, then the news of Prism becoming an official Mozilla Labs project might interest you.

Prism is currently only available for Windows but this should change in the next week or so with the release of a Linux and Mac version. However, WebRunner (the precursor to Prism) is available for all platforms now. My advice is to wait until Prism is available on your platform as it has a number of bug fixes that have made WebRunner annoying to use (no spell checker being the biggest). My experience with WebRunner has been mixed. The idea is good, but the project was very much in its infancy and not ready to replace Firefox. The fact that Prism is an official project now bodes well for its future and I look forward to new versions.

The big question, however, is: how many more times will WebRunner/Prism be renamed?