This document is meant to provide web application developers, browser engineers, and information security researchers with a one-stop reference to key security properties of contemporary web browsers. Insufficient understanding of these often poorly-documented characteristics is a major contributing factor to the prevalence of several classes of security vulnerabilities.

Appcelerator now enables you to use one set of technologies to build rich web, mobile and desktop apps.

And while the open web crowd may froth at the mouth at the very notion, it isn’t clear why it would be in Apple’s (or any other manufacturer’s) interest to encourage development of portable apps when they can lock developers into their ecosystem.

Prism is a simple XULRunner-based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface.