Fluid is developed by Todd Ditchendorf. You can follow Todd on his his blog, on Twitter, on FriendFeed, or email him at todd {dot} ditchendorf {at} gmail {dot} com.

Todd used to work for Apple as Dashboard Engineer, developing Dashboard and Dashboard Widgets for Leopard. He currently resides in Mountain View, CA and can often be found hacking Fluid at Red Rock Coffee.

Credits

Fluid was originally inspired by Mozilla Prism and Adobe Air.

Fluid owes its existence to several open source projects listed below. Relevant license information is distributed with Fluid.

• Apple's WebKit
• Shiira by Makoto Kinoshita
• GreaseKit by KATO Kazuyoshi
• Sparkle Update Framework by Andy Matuschak
• PSMTabBarControl by John Pannell
• IconFamily by Troy Stephens, Thomas Schnitzer, David Remahl, Nathan Day, Ben Haller, Sven Janssen, Peter Hosey, Conor Dearden, and Elliot Glaysher
• Growl
• OmniFrameworks by the OmniGroup
• Cocoa RSS Class by Brent Simmons
• MD5 C tools by L. Peter Deutsch

FAQ

• Is Fluid Free? Fluid is totally free for use... go ahead, try it out!.

• Is Fluid Open Source? No. However, much of Fluid's functionality is built on other open source projects. Are you looking for an open source web rendering engine? Try WebKit or Gecko. Looking for an open source browser built on WebKit or Gecko? Try Shiira or Camino. Looking for an open source Site Specific Browser? Try Mozilla Prism.

• Fluid seems awfully similar to Mozilla Prism. What gives? Fluid was very much inspired by the excellent Mozilla Prism project and Adobe Air. Many people think Prism was the first product in this category, but actually, Prism itself was preceded by other SSB products. Fluid's goal is to be the best, most native-feeling SSB for Mac OS X. Prism is cross-platform, which is a huge benefit for lots of users. However, many Mac users prefer a more tightly-integrated, Mac-like SSB application. That is Fluid's niche. Fluid is a thoroughly native, Cocoa Mac OS X application. No compromises or least-common-denominator tradeoffs.

• Is Fluid available for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or earlier? No.

• Can I somehow redistribute SSBs I create with Fluid to friends/coworkers? Actually, I'd very much prefer you didn't do that. I'm providing Fluid as free software, and I would like every user to see just how easy it is to create their own SSBs for whatever webapp they like. Please direct your friends/coworkers to the Fluid website and ask them to download it themselves and try it out. Fluid is an end-user tool, not an application development or deployment platform. For the latter, check out Titanium or Adobe Air.