Maybe you've heard, and maybe you haven't but HTMl can be used to create standalone applications. Today i started researching it. I'm very dissapointed to say that google doesn't provide too much information on it. However, i've found this: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/ie/evaluate/htmlapps.mspx?mfr=true Although the technology seems to work only for windows with IE installed, it could be usefull. I decided to share - maybe you'll be able to apply it. By the way, does anyone know any method to turn this to be compactible with other OSs?
Here's the microsoft spec: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/hta/overview/htaoverview.asp And here's a good tutorial: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/reference/article.php/3472841 It only works on Windows to my knowledge, but may work on any machine capable of installing IE 5+. It uses the IE core (shdoc.dll I think?) to run the application, so you don't actually have to use IE 5, you just need it installed.