I plan to write a Desktop Client for Windows and Mac. It will be powered by web techniques (HTML + JS). Therefore it shall run on a WebKit engine on the user's desktop.  Recently, I saw an interesting approach for this issue: Appcelerator I love...

First, I'm not interested in doing this professionally. I am a web developer, a coworker of mine recently left for Spotify and said he will be working mostly in JavaScript for the Spotify Desktop app. He said it uses "Chrome frame" and e...

I've searched a bit but can't find an existing tool for this.  I have a node.js web server that is designed to run on your own computer that does some snazzy things for you.  It would be pretty aswesome if I could double click MySnazzyThing....

Recently I stumbled upon Adobe's 'Brackets' code editor, which is apparently built using the standard web languages. As a keen web developer, I have taken quite a bit of interest into how this has been done, and am wondering how on earth...

I need to make a web app that I would be able to install as a desktop application on a client PC (database, jetty+war, firefox/chrome/sth portable).   The application is a quite big search app (I MUST use Lucene). There are only few screens, some dep...

I have a online tool where you can make presentations and then either preview them right online or download them for use later in a presentation. This have been done in flash. An xml is created for the presentation and then flash is using it to displ...

Is there any system/compiler/SDK/IDE that provides an ability to develop desktop applications using JavaScript?...

Is it possible to create Windows desktop applications in JavaScript?  I am aware of HTA (HTML Application) programs, but was wondering if there were a newer .NET or other solution where I could make use of the DLL libraries included with Visual Studi...

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I'm developing a desktop application which is completely written in javascript + web services. I'd like to host it in a chromeless web browser. So basically just a window. I don't want the URL bar, I don't want the big blue bar, etc....