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Fluid 0.9.2 is out with Embedded SSBs, TinyURL resolution and many other bug fixes.

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Several outlets are speculating on the future of Fluid today.

See:

• Daring Fireball
• The Unofficial Apple Weblog
• MacRumors
• Ars Technica
• AppleInsider

Obviously I’m not going to speculate on any possible future features from Apple, but I do have two things to say:

First, Fluid isn’t going anywhere. Fluid has been, and will continue to be, the industry leading SSB product in terms of innovation, polish, and speed of development. As for the future of Fluid, expect much, much more of the same.

Secondly, I want to remind everyone of one thing…

In June 2004, Apple demoed Safari 2.0 featuring RSS feed-reading capabilities. Many were initially concerned that Safari’s new features may signal end times for Mac-only News Aggregators like NetNewsWire.

In fact, quite the opposite occurred. Apple’s move into the RSS space with Safari validated the technology and introduced millions of Mac users to the joys of RSS and feeds. NetNewsWire (and many, many other feed reader apps) basked in the newfound attention, and continued to innovate well beyond Safari’s relatively paltry feed reading offerings. I think it’s safe to say that NetNewsWire benefited from Apple’s move into the space.

So overall, I’m psyched about the attention SSB technology is getting today, and look forward to the challenge of maintaining Fluid’s lead as the best SSB for the Mac with excitement and confidence.

Fluid user Zsolt Benke shows how he uses Fluid to combine all of his social webapp destinations into a single MenuExtra. Awesome.

How to bring all your webapps into one menu item with Fluid from Zsolt Benke on Vimeo.

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Links:

• Get Fluid
• Hahlo
• YungSang’s Hahlo Userscript
• Chris Ivarson’s Hahlo Icon and other goodies
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Fluid 0.9.1.5 is out with the new Browsa Browsa Plug-in, support for creating 512×512px icons, support for selecting .icns files, and the optional new Hidden Windows feature.

Fluid Changelog.

Take a gander at the screencasts below… I’m previewing three features coming up in Fluid 0.9.1.5 which should ship early this week. The previewed features are the new BrowsaBrowsa Plug-in, an option to hide (rather than close) the last Browser Window, and some UI improvements to the recently-released MenuExtra SSB feature. Enjoy.

BrowsaBrowsa Plug-in:

Hidden Windows:

MenuExtra SSB improvements:

Hi all, I’ve decided to remove the Fluid Nightly with Google Gears bundled that I posted yesterday.

Here’s the deal… WebKit support for Gears is very much in progress at the moment, but as you could see if you tried the Fluid Nightly, it’s just not all there yet. I’ve heard from some of the folks who work on Gears that they are hard at work getting WebKit support up to speed.

So in the meantime, shipping Fluid with an not-yet-working version of Gears for WebKit is obviously not a good idea. It doesn’t reflect well on Gears or on Fluid.

The good news is that Gears is open source! So if you are a C++/ObjC hacker interested in Gears for Fluid or any other WebKit-based browser, you should jump on over to the gears site, sign up on the Gears engineering mailing list, and dig in! :0] That’s what I plan on doing. Ain’t open source grand?

Thanks, and stay tuned… hopefully more complete Gears functionality will make its way into Fluid soon!