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

Answer 1

You can use a embedded server like Tomcat or maybe Apache.

I use tomcat for a complete java web application. Run inside browser, but the application need be installed. The shortcut to start the app, start the service and open the browser.

Or try use webkit

Answer 2

You might want to look at XULRunner from Mozilla. At a 10000 foot level, the FireFox browser is a XULRunner application (obviously a very sophisticated one, but...). But XULRunner lets you use Javascript and XML to create applications, and the browser window is one of those components, so you once you get your basic window up, you can likely do pretty much anything you want.

Also, depending on the sophistication of your application, there are several "widget" frameworks (like Dashboard on the Mac, Yahoo Widgets, Windows Gadgets) which are basically HTML runtimes as well.

Answer 3

You can use AppJS which uses Nodejs and Chromium to build html5 apps for desktop. check it out: http://appjs.com Github Link: https://github.com/appjs/appjs

Answer 4

For mobile phones you can use PhoneGap http://www.phonegap.com/ . Probable with some more coding you can use it for desktop.

Answer 5

Definitely check out Titanium. Just today I took a functional HTML5 app and with a few minor modifications was able to drop it into Titanium and package it up for Mac, Windows and Linux.

And it also supports PHP, Python and Ruby if your app requires "server-side" processing.

Answer 6

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