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vinnylinux
vinnylinux

Reputation: 7034

Desktop HTML + CSS + JS application? How this is possible?

I've recently fell in love with Nitro (http://nitrotasks.com), but what got me very curious was that it was written in HTML, CSS and Javascript, yet, it is packaged as a multi-platform binary! How is this possible? Which toolkit are they using?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 425

Answers (3)

David Mulder
David Mulder

Reputation: 27030

Ok, this isn't exactly an answer to your question, but I am assuming you're asking because you consider doing a similar thing yourself in which case it might be worthwhile to check out http://appjs.org/ which makes exactly this possible. Please do realize a lot might change and you should only use that if and only if you're willing to adapt to those change in the future.

Upvotes: 0

Alexander Schimpf
Alexander Schimpf

Reputation: 2392

I just checked the Nitro website, and it doesn't look like it is a multi-platform binary, after all. It looks like they have a version for Linux/Ubuntu, and also an extension (plugin) for Chrome. They also have a web version and a Firefox plugin, which isn't available yet.

Upvotes: 1

Alex W
Alex W

Reputation: 38253

Based on their Launchpad repository for Ubuntu, they are using Quickly.

For Chrome and Firefox, based on the Nitro GitHub page, it seems that they are just deploying it as a browser plug-in.

Upvotes: 2

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