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 ...

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 ...

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.

While the desktop app is not open source, the JavaScript code utilized by Electron -- an open source project for creating cross-platform apps able to harness JavaScript, HTML, and CSS -- was saved ...

More recently, web development has taken center stage and JavaScript in web browsers has become the dominant force in UI development. However, that doesn't make Java desktop applications obsolete. A ...