Tests new 'Snowl' messaging add-on, unveils 'Aurora' concept browser
(Computerworld) Mozilla Corp. is experimenting with several ideas to push the browser envelope, including one that could turn the browser into a messaging hub.
The company said today it has launched a browser add-on prototype named "Snowl" that displays Twitter messages, or tweets, as well as RSS or Atom feed content, in either a traditional single-window view within Firefox, or one featuring several separate panes, said Myk Melez, a senior software engineer who works in Mozilla Labs, the company's research arm.
Snowl is part of broader work at Labs to explore both near-term tools for Firefox and longer-range overhauls of the browser. In Snowl's case, Mozilla is trying to decide whether messages that normally appear in their own separate desktop client applications or via pop-up notifications, belong in the browser.
"We want to find out whether there's a role for messaging in the browser," said Melez. "Can it become a hub for messaging?"...........
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(Computerworld) Mozilla Corp. is experimenting with several ideas to push the browser envelope, including one that could turn the browser into a messaging hub.
The company said today it has launched a browser add-on prototype named "Snowl" that displays Twitter messages, or tweets, as well as RSS or Atom feed content, in either a traditional single-window view within Firefox, or one featuring several separate panes, said Myk Melez, a senior software engineer who works in Mozilla Labs, the company's research arm.
Snowl is part of broader work at Labs to explore both near-term tools for Firefox and longer-range overhauls of the browser. In Snowl's case, Mozilla is trying to decide whether messages that normally appear in their own separate desktop client applications or via pop-up notifications, belong in the browser.
"We want to find out whether there's a role for messaging in the browser," said Melez. "Can it become a hub for messaging?"...........
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9112060&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8
