So, one of the first things that came to my mind when I started playing with Webrunner was to make a bookmarklet to generate webapp bundles from the page you were on.  This was just a proof of concept and for my own use really.  Since Prism was announced (new version/name of Webrunner), it was also clear that making webapps would be done via Firefox itself.  So, to some extent a bookmarklet may not have much purpose unless its being used for Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera or other web browsers besides Firefox.  Some people may even prefer a bookmarklet.  I dont know.  Regardless, one exists and it is located here:

http://prismspectrum.com/bookmarklet/

I plan to deal with some issues so that it can be used by people beyond myself, but for sake of experimenting... I figured that I would share out the link and let people try it.

Any troubles or feedback would be great as I think about extending this with more advanced features in parallel with Prism development.  You can chat here or email me at sulleleven -at- gmail.

Thanks,

Sull


 

Anyone got it going with Tangler yet?

yep, just cant login via Prism due to SSL Certificate issue.  I get a message that Tangler uses an invalid security certificate.  Not sure if thats an issue that you can fix or not.... Aparently firefox, IE etc can ignore some certificate errors, but Prism seems to simply reject them.  Thoughts?   There is this thread that was just posted too:

https://labs.mozilla.com/forum/index.php/topic,204.0.html

I have just added support for Sidebar Content as part of the Prism Bookmarklet.  Now you can generate simple Prism Mash-ups on-the-fly.

Update your bookmarklet if you previously created one:

http://prismspectrum.com/bookmarklet/

Let me know if it works for you.  Only tested on Mac OSX Firefox 2 and Safari.  Worked ok.

Thanks.

Sull 
 

you dont actually need to update the bookmarklet on your end

i've updated the bookmarklet to handle icons.   It is intended to allow user to provide a url to a good quality icon in either ico format for windows or icns format for mac and i suppose xpm or xbm for linux (right?).  By default, it will populate the icon url field with the sites favicon.ico (assumes) but this is not suggested yet since it would create a blurry desktop icon. What is needed is a way to either scale up the favicon in a way that looks good on desktop, have sites provide a higher resolution icon (maybe a mozilla prism standard and semantic markup in page) or just let users point to a proper icon hosted somewhere on the web.

For sake of experimenting, i've at least added support for the latter.  If the option is not used, then the official prism icon is used.

 

I've created a Bookmarklet for a website and downloaded it however when I double-click it, it shows a blank Prism setup dialog. I've tried associating *.webapp and webapp with Prism in WinXP but still no joy.

I need to be able to create an "installer" that will setup Prism for customers with a website/application pre-configured for them. I'm just not getting the concept of the webapp here. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

long time since any activity here.  the bookmarklet i created a few years ago when prism was first announced was experimental but worked well.  today, prism has evolved but my experiment has not.  so it does not work right now.  if you want to let users of your website use prism, you could make a webapp using firefox plugin and maybe upload it to your server for others to download.

Could you update the thingy?