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...

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....

Is it possible writing a cross-platform desktop application with XHTML (or HTML), CSS and JavaScript?  If the answer is yes, how to run this application? Should I run it with a browser like Firefox?  Note: Currently Windows supports HTML Application....

I need to do some scripts in java script. I am working on it but couldn't find a few solutions to a few problems.  First of all I need a GOOD tutorial, but not for an internet page but for a DESKTOP script.  Things couldn't find out like : 1)...