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May 19, 2008

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Fluid web app containment

Posted May. 19, ’08, 7:04 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Software

Fluid It’s a little ironic that soon after I said that web applications didn’t excite me that I’m writing about an application that helps you package web applications into various Mac applications. Fluid helps you manage all the web services you use daily by putting them into specially engineered web browsers. This serves several purposes.

First, you can take a glance at your dock, find the service you want to use and pop into it quickly. No fancy bookmark manipulation or management. It also let’s you add User Scripts (aka Greasemonkey scripts), filtering, bookmarks, auto-software updates, custom SSB icons, a JavaScript API for showing dock badges (wicked cool), Growl notifications, and Dock Menu Items, and more.

That’s a lot of goodness to get for nothing. It’s free. This just might make me like web services as applications. Maybe. It at least makes me want to play some more.


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