Simpltry

I previously blogged about fluid. 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 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.