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 Firefox ...

A new open source tool dubbed Quark promises rapid creation of desktop applications with native capabilities while leveraging web development technologies. Built on top of GitHub’s Electron framework ...

Typically, writing programs for Web browsers means that you don't have access to a user's computer and file system. But by using ActiveX objects on Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer, you can ...

Collabora is now also releasing its office suite as a desktop application. It uses web technology instead of the classic ...