Standalone application

[l...@miprosoft.com]

Hey ! node-webkit looks like it's just what I was looking for !

Allowing to wrap web apps into a Windows Linux or Mac standalone executable without the need to open a browser window :-)

With PhoneGap i can now also build a client app for smartphones and tablets.

Time to release an updated version... as 'soon' I have enough time or money to work on it :-)

Regards,

Luc


https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

Introduction

node-webkit is an app runtime based on Chromium and node.js. You can write native apps in HTML and Javascript with node-webkit. It also lets you to call Node.js modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing native applications with all Web technologies.

It's created and developed in Intel Open Source Technology Center.

Introduction to node-webkit (slides).

Features

• Apps written in modern HTML5, CSS3, JS and WebGL.
• Complete support for Node.js APIs and all its third party modules.
• Good performance: Node and WebKit runs in the same thread: Function calls are made straightforward; objects are in the same heap and can just reference each other;
• Easy to package and distribute apps.
• Available on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows