Simpltry

I [previously](http://www.simpltry.com/2008/01/01/fluid/ “Simpltry » Blog Archive » Fluid”) blogged about [fluid](http://fluidapp.com/ “Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard”). I said, “I would be surprised if they don’t expose a plugin framework.” I am happy to report I was wrong. They exposed a JS API, to get results like:

The reason a js api is better than a plugin framework, is because a user doesn’t need to build a plugin, they can simply include 3 lines of code in their app and they get custom doc badges. The latest version (.7) of fluid also added [growl notification](http://growl.info/ “Welcome to Growl!”) with fluid, which is cool. Anyway here is the 3 lines of code.

if(window.fluid) {
    window.fluid.setDockBadge("7");
}

Even if Fluid doesn’t stick, which I hope it does, this is certainly the a key to what the future of software development looks like.