[Hidden-tech] Anyone making standalone desktop applications to work with web based applications ?

[Daniel Fried]

Rich,

I have done that with Flash. I've played with AIR, but haven't done anything
real with it since it's still pre-release (or was last I looked).  I have,
however, used Flash in stand-alone mode for the same purposes.  Even without
AIR, Flash can handle interaction with a web server using XML from a
Projector (an executable that can be generated from the Flash authoring
environment and does not require a separate Flash player).  The only thing
that AIR really adds to that is the ability to access the file system and
registry and the like (also the ability to build applications using HTML and
JavaScript, but that's a separate issue).

I've also done stuff in the more distant past using a couple of C++
frameworks, but nothing really modern.

If the application is something that would work well in Flash, that's an
easy way to handle it.

-Dan

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By that I mean running a standalone mini-browser for an application that 
is web based.

Some examples are Adobe's AIR (was called apollo)
   MS IE - HTA
   XULRunner

Yahoo widgets is kinda like like this (but requires their desktop)
And Google gadgets is similiar

Any one doing work like this ?

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