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		nthitz on April 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript To be honest I've always wanted a file format that is exactly as you described. A zipped up front end web app. No internet dependencies so it works 100%. User can open the open the format and it opens in their browser of choice. All the files contained within are "hosted" from a static "webserver" that just hosts the files within the .zip. I can't say much to WinJS yet, but I am interested in their choice of container.

bananas on April 3, 2014 [–]

Sounds like a java war file (just add container).

lmm on April 3, 2014 | [–]

More like Java Web Start. Which would've been great if it worked with a decent UI framework.

bananas on April 3, 2014 | | [–]

You mean JavaFX. That works with web start :)

You can do ClickOnce and WPF as well if you want.

I rather like these solutions. I've built several of both.

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