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Re:MacGap – Build Native OS X Apps with Web Technologies by dubcanada on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @11:29AM (#8694589)
Is that why it is being reposted? Cause macgap is really old. There are much much better solutions now and days.
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Re:MacGap – Build Native OS X Apps with Web Technologies by goatforce5 on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @11:34AM (#8694637)
What are some of the other solutions?

(This isn't an area i'm familiar with.)

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Re:MacGap – Build Native OS X Apps with Web Technologies by teleclimber on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @12:22PM (#8694987)
"Better" will depend on your needs, but things to look at:

Chromium Embedded Framework https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/

Atom shell (based on CEF) https://github.com/atom/atom-shell

Brackets Shell (also CEF based) https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell

node-webkit https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

TideSDK http://www.tidesdk.org/

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Re:MacGap – Build Native OS X Apps with Web Technologies by teleclimber on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @12:46PM (#8695157)
More: http://www.trueinteractions.com/

You can also apparently just roll your own if you want: https://github.com/lostdecade/web_view_example

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Re:MacGap – Build Native OS X Apps with Web Technologies by joeblau on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @12:59PM (#8695248)
Tide Doesn't look like it's been updated in a while. Looks like it's at the same version from ~2 years ago.
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Re:MacGap – Build Native OS X Apps with Web Technologies by bonif on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @01:16PM (#8695361)
They rebranded as Tidekit [0] , I've been following their Twitter account for ~ a year now, but it's still vaporware

[0] https://www.tidekit.com/

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Re:MacGap – Build Native OS X Apps with Web Technologies by yla92 on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @11:39AM (#8694675)
One of them is node-webkit (https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit)
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Re:MacGap – Build Native OS X Apps with Web Technologies by herve76 on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @11:38AM (#8694664)
Meteor and Ionic
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Re:MacGap – Build Native OS X Apps with Web Technologies by finne on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @11:57AM (#8694809)
Meteor & Iconic create web & mobile apps, not desktop applications.
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