:The web is moving towards websites-as-applications and there are many projects to help integrate these new applications with the various desktop environments ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime AIR], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverlight#Silverlight_3 Silverlight Out-of-Browser Experience], [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Prism Mozilla Prism], [http://fluidapp.com Fluid]). There is also the bold [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_webOS webOS] from Palm, that fully embraces web technologies by making them the default toolkit for building applications for the platform. | :The web is moving towards websites-as-applications and there are many projects to help integrate these new applications with the various desktop environments ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime AIR], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverlight#Silverlight_3 Silverlight Out-of-Browser Experience], [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Prism Mozilla Prism], [http://fluidapp.com Fluid]). There is also the bold [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_webOS webOS] from Palm, that fully embraces web technologies by making them the default toolkit for building applications for the platform. |