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If we do not want Prism to go the way of the every-so-geeky implementations done by Safari and Chrome, we need to focus on helping users discover when they might want to make an web-app into a desktop app. | If we do not want Prism to go the way of the every-so-geeky implementations done by Safari and Chrome, we need to focus on helping users discover when they might want to make an web-app into a desktop app. | ||
When the user is found (by examining the places database) to visit a site frequently and stay on it (i.e., uses it like an application), we can show a suggestion that the user might want to turn it into a desktop application. | |||
http://img.skitch.com/20081210-mu6783bt3jy13adcik1wfrsfcn.jpg | |||
The message animates into the site identity button indicating the feature can be accessed there. Some heuristic is used to decide how many times the suggestion should be shown. Clicking on the link causes a beautiful animation (the page scales down to the thumbnail seen below, everything else fades in): | |||
http://img.skitch.com/20081210-k6jxkbtx1f7fgxpptefx4usmit.jpg | |||
= JS API (Reach) = | = JS API (Reach) = | ||