{"id":683,"date":"2008-03-05T19:45:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T19:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=683"},"modified":"2014-08-04T17:46:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T17:46:24","slug":"fluid-turning-webapps-into-desktop-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2008\/03\/05\/fluid-turning-webapps-into-desktop-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluid &#8211; Turning WebApps into Desktop Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to avoid web apps because I don&#8217;t like having my apps stuck in a tab in a web browser. This makes it hard to <code>command+tab<\/code> to the app and impossible to assign that app to a particular space. I don&#8217;t use GMail but if I did I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;d be using <a href=\"http:\/\/mailplaneapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mailplane<\/a> to access it. <a href=\"http:\/\/fluidapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fluid<\/a> is not as advanced as Mailplane but it does allow most webapps to be liberated from your browser.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Fluid, web applications[\/tags]<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->You enter a URL and a name and specify an icon and a location and Fluid will create a custom application for your webapp. It does this using WebKit so each of these apps is really just a dedicated browser window but without the address bar and menubars and with its own dock icon. This lets you <code>command+tab<\/code> to the web app and also assign the web app to a particular space.<\/p>\n<p>Fluid is not perfect. When a webapp tried to leave the domain it starts in Fluid interprets that as a call to an external URL and opens the page in your default browser. This is great when you&#8217;re using Fluid to access web mail because when you click a link in your mail you end up in your browser just like you would with a regular desktop mail client. However, when I tried to set up Flickr as a Fluid App it wouldn&#8217;t work because Flickr redirects to yahoo to deal with your login.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this one flaw I still live Fluid and have a few custom applications set up with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to avoid web apps because I don&#8217;t like having my apps stuck in a tab in a web browser. This makes it hard to command+tab to the app and impossible to assign that app to a particular space. I don&#8217;t use GMail but if I did I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;d be using Mailplane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[26,139,188,463,435],"series":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech","tag-os-x","tag-review","tag-software","tag-utility","tag-web-browser"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-b1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7578,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/7578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}