Integration of web applications with the desktop is a very useful (and popular) thing to do. Gears, AIR, Prism, HTML 5 and various combinations between them extend the browser with: persistent storage, accessing files, desktop icons, running in a separate window/process, programmatic drawing, etc.<br /><br /> | Integration of web applications with the desktop is a very useful (and popular) thing to do. Gears, AIR, Prism, HTML 5 and various combinations between them extend the browser with: persistent storage, accessing files, desktop icons, running in a separate window/process, programmatic drawing, etc.<br /><br /> |