[mappu]

I've been meaning to build something like this using CEF or something, and i'm glad someone else beat me to it. And it has TCP sockets! That seemed like such a glaring omission in cordova/phonegap.

I also think it's good to provide a platform.getOSType() in a cross-platform environment as long as things don't get out of hand. You could switch on this to load the platform's default fonts.

[toni]

Try node-webkit[1]. It's a chromium wrapper around nodejs and they have various ready-made binaries for linux/osx/windows platforms. In my experience, it's much cleaner and faster to get up and running than titanium/tide

[1] https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

[cnunciato]

+1 for node-webkit; I've been having a blast messing around with it lately, it's great stuff. With the pre-built binaries, you can be off and running (with full node support in your browser JS) in minutes.

[_neil]

I've been following node-webkit and AppJS on github for a while and they both look great, though I haven't actually used them. Maybe (hopefully) I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem like you can compile an app to a standalone binary with either; specifically on OSX.

[toni]

By "... compile an app to a standalone binary", do you mean that you would like node-webkit/appjs to convert your HTML5/JS files to ObjectiveC? That would be really amazing, but this is just like phonegap/cordova. It basically shields your files around a webkit wrapper.

[_neil]

I mean being able to compile to a .app file on OSX, .exe on windows, etc. TideSDK can do this in a wrapper-type of way like you mentioned.

[toni]

Yes, node-webkit does that too. Check out: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/How-to-package...

[fairwinds]

TideSDK handles the packaging and bundles everything into packaging native to the platform. You don't have to worry about what to include because it is gathered and packaged for you.

[WayneDB]

Along the same lines is AppJS - https://github.com/appjs/appjs