Comments on: Fluid + Hahlo

By: Boaz

Boaz — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:25:08 +0000

I like where Brian Christiansen is going.
I just got Fluid working with Google Docs and Gears. I was so pumped until I went offline and found that you cannot create a new document unless your online. Hopefully Google will remedy this soon. I’m writing a quick article on this for the next issue of the html times
Also, Stephanie: command tilde is the mac equivalent of alt tab in windows.
Also Ian: that is odd. Google Docs worded just fine as an SSB on the first try. Do you need to upgrade your OS?:

By: Andy Ford

Andy Ford — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:41:03 +0000

I use Fluid with a local version of my home baked "FontChart" to help with the crazy math of working with EM's

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:32:58 +0000

How are you guys getting Google Docs to work with Fluid? I get a message that the browser doesn’t work with Documents… and if I use the ?browswerok=true URL modifier, I get stuck at “Loading…”. Ideas?

By: Adam Darowski

Adam Darowski — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:19:38 +0000

In addition to Fluid+Hahlo, I've been using the Google Reader with the iPhone user agent. It's been handy for testing the local iPhone version for the app we're working on, BatchBook. I tried Hahlo out a long time ago, but only recently came back. Can't believe I wasn't using it all that time. It's darn near perfect.

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:55:18 +0000

Yeah man, top notch idea. I've been using a Fluid-made app for Status as well. I made a video tutorial on how I did it (very simple of course). Status + Fluid Video

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:21:38 +0000

Hahlo looks cool but prompts me for my twitter password. Is this part of Jeremy's dreaded password anti-pattern?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:14:36 +0000

Wow, thank you for sharing this! I have been complaining since I moved to Mac a year ago that I can’t alt tab to different browser windows, now I can!
AND I can get to Gmail from Quicksilver now.

By: Michael Innes

Michael Innes — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:21:03 +0000

I haven’t tried Fluid yet, but does it act in roughly the same way that Chrome does with converting web pages to stand-alone applications?

By: Rob McM

Rob McM — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:28:37 +0000

I have been using fluid for lots of apps, Hahlo is one of them, although I use it in the menu bar.
One I found the other day was phpMyAdmin, which is really handy.
Be sure to check out the flickr pool for icons!

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:01:02 +0000

To me, this sounds like a great idea until you look at the RAM being used for each Fluid “application” you’ve created. Sure it’s nice to have that web application on your dock for easier access but when you compare a website tab open at 2-3M and an Fluid application at 25-30M, it begins to add up. Being a print and web designer, I constantly have Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Firefox, Coda, xScope and others… not to mention my non production/design apps such as iTunes, Mail and Safari.
My point is that RAM is precious and having more unnecessary apps doesn’t make sense to me. What I like to do is have different windows and have my web applications such as Twitter, Ma.gnolia and Ta-Da List on a different window and treat that window as my applications page. What do you guys think?