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This is a blog post featuring something that is already on the main page.

The post *hit* the front page about an hour after another post on the same topic. However, it was written last evening - it takes some time for the votes to "kick in".

Yes, but do we really need the actual article, and then a blog post rehashing the article on the same page?

I just realized that it was your blog, so I understand the sensitivity.

To add some substance to this thread, why exactly is Prism special? How is it different than a web browser widget in a stripped down form? What does it offer besides severe redundancy?

There is so much potential for a custom platform, but they don't seem to want to go the way of a non compatible setup, and have essentially just created a very limited browser. Until the web application can interact with this browser in a powerful way, there is no advantage to this. You might as well just hide the tool bars of a current browser and run it full screen like many kiosks do.

No big sensitivity, since i didn't submit this article to DZone. I wrote it after i saw a few blogs from Mozilla people, played with it and then summarized it on my blog, which is largely oriented towards Java developers (which might or might not follow Mozilla feeds). And if you reread my posting, i never say that this is a break-through technology. They strip the chrome from the browser and put a shortcut on the desktop. They do have a few features planned for it, such as custom icons, skinning, etc.