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Re:Ask HN: Javascript for desktop apps? by anc2020 on Monday July 27, 2009 @07:56AM (#725703)
Adobe Air is a possibility
Re:Ask HN: Javascript for desktop apps? by abyssknight on Monday July 27, 2009 @09:25AM (#725787)
Not just a possibility, its an emerging method of taking the web technologies to the desktop. You can mix AS3 and HTML/JS for a very clean, and fast implementation of typical desktop UI features. Honestly, AIR is perhaps the easiest way to package these sorts of things.