At the Node+JS Interactive conference in Montreal, the OpenJS Foundation announced that the Electron framework has joined the foundation. Electron is a popular cross-platform desktop application ...

Two projects have emerged that aim to bring rich JavaScript bindings and embedded scripting functionality to GTK+ application developers.

When does it make more sense to develop a native desktop app, or an Electron-powered web UI app? We break it down for you.

Ars takes a close look at Seed, a new framework that allows software developers to build GTK+ applications with JavaScript. The popular web scripting language could soon become the dominant ...

Create a variable in the JavaScript tags to initialize an ActiveX object that can run commands through a command line: Add another line inside the script tags to run a desktop application.

Microsoft, yes, Microsoft now promises that you can run Windows on your Linux PC. We don't know exactly how they're going to do that. It might be by using a native Remote Desktop application or by ...

Whether you're building a Web or desktop application, here's a round-up of tools for building the interface with plain old HTML. Being able to work comfortably on Web-related code elements -- HTML, ...

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 ...