Bridging Web 2.0 with the Desktop
April 16th, 2006After hearing about Bubbles, a new app that attempts to bridge the great browser divide separating Web 2.0 from the desktop, on Om Malik’s blog, I thought I’d give it a try.
Bubbles is a nice and simple attempt (by Ohar Eder-Pressman and friends in Israel), and allows developers to customize their web applications via javascript APIs - therefore allowing the bridge to be crossed both ways. The AJAX engine can also be used to write tiny JS applications for the client side, which probably might be a lot more useful for me than the basic concept of Bubbles itself. Thanks to some quick tweaking via AutoPatcher XP, I can set individual browser windows to operate like standalone applications, with basic system tray functionality.
The Bubbles web site could use some quick spelling correction though.
