jeg's random rants & rambling

This post was inspired by the recent hype about Mozilla's Prism, and Site-Specific Browsers in general. For those not in the know: a Site-Specific Browser is a browser (or a browser window as we'll see later on) thats only purpose is to display a single website to help integrate it into the desktop environment. This is useful for web applications (which seem to be all the rage now); sites that serve a single function, like a mail or calendar application, a browser-based RSS aggregator etc.

I've been an avid Opera user since...6.x, I think, so I didn't really want to have to use Mozilla for an SSB. I was thinking, with Opera's immense customizability, there just has to be a solution without getting a separate app. I think I got pretty close.

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