An idea

[Ranma]

I discovered some time ago the concept of SSBs, aka Single Site
Browsers or Site Specific Browsers. They're basically browsers that
load an engine and only plugins necessary to run a specific site or
web app. I couldn't think of a reason why you might need one until
now. Why not have a SSB load Parchment? Could need some tweeking, but
you might have the SSB save any user settings to the directory where
it was ran, and something like Inform could export like it already
does with Parchment, but also with the SSB, then the file can be
shared as a whole in a compressed format or with an installer. So no
hosting necessary, AND it removes the complication for newbies to IF
of finding an interpreter.

[Carl Youngblood]

Fluid.app is a cool tool for this on OS X.

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[Dannii]

I'm sorry but I don't really see how this would help. It's still an
extra program they have to install! You can also bundle up traditional
interpreters with the story file if you want to go that approach.

But by all means, do this yourself if you want. Open source says do it!

[Ranma]

Well, bundling with an interpreter still means that you usually have
to load the story file to play, unless you make a preconfigured
launcher that points directly to the story file, but you're right.

[Ranma]

Yes, Fluid is exactly what I'm talking about. Prism by Mozilla is the same concept.