I have been using fluid for a couple years now and I really like the the whole web app desktop app paradigm. It just feels cleaner. But lately using fluid leaves me wanting. Fluid hasn't had an update since november of 09' and things like lack of password management and a very old version of webkit just bum me out some times. It kills the local application feel when I have to log in every time I open my google docs app and when I do I get funky characters when I use the arrow keys.

So I started poking around and I have found that mozilla's prism application for has actually come a long way since I saw it last. It works really well. It seems to work just as well as fluid but with the added bonus of saving my passwords and working with google docs.

Now I know that prism has also been discontinued but hopefully it will live on in the chromeless project and continue to break down the barrier between web and local applications.

Note: Changing the user agent in prism is kinda funky but its not hard. If you want to change it, which you probably should to avoid problems with apps like netflix who do feature detection based on user agent, check the video below.