[nodejs] [ANN] Bellite toolkit for hybrid desktop apps

2013-06-05 Thread Shane Holloway (IEEE)
Hello all! I've been working on expanding Bellite to languages like Node, Ruby and Python, and I'm thrilled to be making the first public announcement to the Node.js community. Bellite is a toolkit for creating hybrid desktop applications using web-based frontends. Compared to similar projects

Re: [nodejs] [ANN] Bellite toolkit for hybrid desktop apps

2013-06-05 Thread Elijah Insua
looks neat, but how does this differ from something like node-chrome? -- Elijah On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Shane Holloway (IEEE) < shane.hollo...@ieee.org> wrote: > Hello all! > I've been working on expanding Bellite to languages like Node, Ruby and > Python, and I'm thrilled to be making

Re: [nodejs] [ANN] Bellite toolkit for hybrid desktop apps

2013-06-05 Thread Shane Holloway (IEEE)
For one, Bellite apps get to have their own application name in the OSX menu! But more generally, the toolkit enables distribution of your app independent of other installed applications. On Mac, it uses the WebKit.framework; On Windows, it uses the Google Chrome Frame via ActiveX + win32 and au