Here is what I want to do, very simply:
I want to put a URL into a Mozilla Prism (or some alternative), then be provided with an icon on my desktop that when I click it a window opens and the page is displayed. The process for this instance of Prism should be completely independent of any other Prism "applications" that are running.
Prism looks like it does this exactly, but I'm running Fedora 12 x86_64 and I can't get it to work, so I'm wondering if there are any alternatives to Prism.
I would recommend sticking with Prism and trying to get it to work on your distro, maybe post a question on SO's sister site, Serverfault.com, or Superuser.com. I'm not an expert in the field but I think apart from Microsoft's Hypertext Applications concept (Is that even alive anymore?) there's not that many alternatives around.
I've found Google Chrome does a really nice job of creating stand alone web applications. The term is Site-Specific Browser. Now Chrome is not Open Source, but it is available on many platforms and it is based on Chromium, which is Open Source. There arent' any packages of Chromium available for Fedora 13 at the moment, but it looks simple enough to build on Ubuntu, so I'll give that a try one of these days.
Anyway, I'm giving up on Mozilla Prism, I spent probably 10 hours trying to get it work on Fedora 13 64-bit.
Did you get it working? I cannot seem to get it installed on Linux Mint 9. I have tried latest version from the package manager and also downloading and installing from the website. It started off crashing when trying to load. Now I am getting the following error:
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: chrome://webrunner/content/webrunner.xul Line Number 58, Column 5:
I have uninstalled, deleted all the files, re-booting etc:
The only thing to try is the firefox addon.