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Ask YC: Is anyone using Fluid, Air, or Prism to wrap their sites?

• e1ven 19y ago
  There are a lot of options to wrap your site, and make it available as a standalone application.. Adobe has Air, Mozilla has Prism, and Fluid uses WebKit/Safari. Does anyone have any experience in releasing their sites as downloads? Have your users enjoyed the experience? What sort of download numbers have you seen? Chron X is currently a downloadable game, but we're porting it to a web-based game, running in Flash.. Since people are used to downloading it, I've been considering releasing a wrapped version, but I'd love to see any anecdotes that people might have in working with any of the engines.
• alaskamiller 19y ago
  If your application is a Flash RIA i think the best approach is just to use Air. You can still display HTML content within Air.
  • e1ven 19y ago
    Air's a great package- We've done a few tests with it, and I like the way it works, with a few caveats.. I'm more interested in the entire process, however. A lot of YC-like apps would do well as downloads, and I'm curious if anyone has tried.
• kajecounterhack 19y ago
  I tried Prism. It lets me wrap slime volleyball. I would call that, in spanish, muy util
• hsuresh 19y ago
  I am working on bundling a webapp using xul/xulrunner. I will make it opensource and available soon.