Building Local Web Apps?

[Dave Cramer]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Scott Elcomb <psema4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:31 PM, William O'Higgins Witteman
> <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Does anyone know a tool that can let me build web apps for local use -
>> that run a webserver and a web front-end in one neat package, so I can
>> use the browser to build UIs rather than other tools.  Ideally,
>> something that I can deploy across any platform.
>>
>> I'm taking a look at something called Titanium
>> (http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-desktop-application-development/) which looks like it might work out, but I'm not sure about it yet.  I thought I'd pick the list's collective brain to see what you all think.  Thanks.
>
> If you try Titanium, I'd love to hear your take on it.
>
> If you're using KDE, Marcel Gagné wrote an article[1] for the July
> issue of Linux Pro Magazine.  He goes through creating Plasma apps for
> KDE 4.4 using Javascript and an IDE called PlasMate.  I've no idea
> what the most recent version is; the only package I found was the
> source tarball for an alpha version[2].
>
> Another alternative might be a custom setup using Prism[3], a server
> plugin like POW[4] and a Javascript GUI library like Sencha (formerly
> "ExtJS")[5]; it'll probably take some work to get them all playing
> nice together however.
>
> Cheers,
> - Scott.

There's also gwt from google.

Dave
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