Question

I’m making a html5 game and while I’d like to be able to publish the game to a web platform like chrome store, the game plays closer to a traditional desktop game. So I’d like to be able to make it for the desktop too and take advantage of desktop app stores as well.

Air would have been ideal except that they dropped support for linux which is my main platform. I liked Titanium but it doesn’t have support for html5 audio yet and installing it onto linux can be tricky sometimes. I researched Phonegap but it’s targeted toward mobile and not desktop. Is there a simple platform out there that’ll just let me wrap my app in a webkit frame or something?

All I want to do is have my game run in a browser frame, I don’t need any crazy features like a server because all it is is html and javascript, nothing server side. With all the cool things out there like Titanium and phonegap I’m positive there has to be something simple like this out there.

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

Blender was right. XULrunner was a great platform. I literally had my webapp up and running within a few hours of going through tutorials and docs. Works great, I’d recommend it to anyone else with this need at least until someone makes something a bit more documented.

Here’s a good starter tutorial:
http://www.kodewerx.org/wiki/A_Brief_Introduction_To_XULRunner:_Part_1

And a hint, no need to download XULrunner while developing, firefox has a command line argument for it. Just

$ firefox -app /path/to/application.ini

And it’ll run. So if you have firefox, you have XULrunner. And it’ll work at least until release.