[mouseroot]

well for cross platform Qt or gtk,although everyone always says stay away from experimental I say use canvas If the user cant use the canvas fall back to jquery. I belive with the technologies we have now old idioms like "dont render gui on the canvas" this will soon fade away, running your own server for just that application may not work so well as you have to manage that server aswell, like what if the user isnt allowed to give the firewall access? or what if the server crashes and the client has import data that needs to saved? I personally have played with alot of gui stuff and I always come back to html5 and js so thats just my $0.02

[zoobert]

@mouseroot. Ok thanks for the advice. When I was talking about http server, I meant locally on the user's machine(start a nodejs for example and kill it when the user stop the application somehow).

Other solution is to use chromium with a filesystem extension.

Do you have tricks or advices for that ?

[mouseroot]

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/ and heres something i tossed together yesterday :D http://cssdeck.com/labs/nt3httvf

that site html5rocks shows alot of cool stuff some of it only works in chrome but most of it is cross browser, hope this helps

[zoobert]

Ok I will check the html5rocks web site. Thanks