During his keynote presentation at OSCON last year, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth described application extensibility as an important enabler of innovation and user empowerment. Citing the ...

Just remember, you heard about them here first! Tauri: A JavaScript framework for desktop apps Tauri is a JavaScript framework for building desktop applications. Perhaps “meta-framework” is a ...

It supports programming in JavaScript with HTML markup in an ... Even without Nitro, detached Curl applets can be used for desktop applications: The Curl IDE and help system are good examples ...

Create a variable in the JavaScript tags to initialize an ActiveX object that can run commands through a command line: Add another line inside the script tags to run a desktop application.

New platforms like Adobe Air and Mozilla Prism are evolving that combine the benefits of Internet flow with the flexibility and power of desktop applications. They are part browser, part desktop ...

Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications. Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators ...

Windows is still going to be king of the corporate desktop for a long ... to think that HTML5 and JavaScript are the only option for immersive Windows 8 applications, regardless of the distress ...

That was then. This is now. At Linux Application Summit (LAS) in Barcelona, the two, along with other desktop developers, came together to make the Linux desktop a friendlier place for all users.