Solutions for distributing HTML5 applications as desktop applications? [closed]

Answer 1

If you just need it for Windows, you should consider HTML Applications (HTA), it's been part of Internet Explorer since IE 5 (10+ years).

No server required, full HTML formatting, full access to local resources (even COM / USB ports), awesome. Also, easy to debug with Visual Studio, just bind to MSHTA.exe

You can enable HTML 5 in HTA's with the following meta tag:

<!-- enable html5 features --> 
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"></meta>

Answer 2

Currently the answer is that are different solutions of each platform.

• For MAC OSX You will create a Cocoa Desktop App with a UIWebView
• For Windows you will make a .NET desktop app with a browser component.

Answer 3

chrome can do what prism does See -- Tools-> Create application Shortcut

Answer 4

Adobe AIR is meant to let you work primarily in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while providing a desktop application. (Caveat: I haven't actually used it myself.)

Answer 5

Hmmm... a virtual machine for HTML5/CSS/JS... sounds like a browser. :)

Maybe Adobe AIR would do the trick, because it's based on the idea of bringing rich Internet apps to the desktop. I've never used it, however.

One thing you could do is develop a very basic desktop app that uses some kind of prepackaged web browser control (e.g. if you're developing for a Mac, just drop a WebView in the window and add some basic code to load your html upon app startup).

Answer 6

Check this new project from Mozilla. You can create desktop apps too : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Apps

Detail here: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/05/desktop-apps-with-html5-and-the-mozilla-web-runtime/