Comments on: Snow Leopard screens trickle out: Safari has mysterious ‘Save as Web Application’ menu item!

By: Avon B7

Avon B7 — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:59:29 +0000

This is not really all that new and not dependent on Snow Leopard.

I beta test a Browser (a minority player in the browser world) and it is also able to Save As an application.

Basically what you get is a stripped down version of the browser (missing many GUI elements) but it is an app in the real sense of the word.

By: enzos

enzos — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:46:50 +0000

These web apps might be embeddable as live components in iWork docs, spreadshets, DBs, presentations etc. in much the same way as with dear old ..
>Cyberdog was an OpenDoc-based suite of internet applications, including email and news readers, a web browser and address book management components, as well as drag and drop FTP. OpenDoc allowed these components to be reused and embedded in other documents by the user. For instance, a “live” Cyberdog web page could be embedded in a presentation program, one of the common demonstrations of OpenDoc. -WikiP.

It’d be really neat if true but I sort of doubt it..

By: Curmudgeon Geographer

Curmudgeon Geographer — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:17:13 +0000

Does “Save as Web Application” really seem all that wildly different than a Dashboard app? Could it just be the next level of Dashboard development?

By: Eddy

Eddy — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:48:17 +0000

I already got that for my Safari 4 beta on Leopard. No need snow leopard…

By: Michael Bleigh

Michael Bleigh — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:07:17 +0000

All that means is that you will be saving it as a Site-Specific Browser. We’ve heard rumors from other places that Safari will feature SSB support, so this is no surprise.

What will be surprising is if it can possibly be better than Fluid.

By: Jonathan Silberman

Jonathan Silberman — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:03:42 +0000

My guess is that they going the site specific browser route a la Fluid (www.fluidapp.com) not offline access. But who knows.