Jive Apps - Offline web applications for Debian based Linux written in HTML5
This was the conceptual implementation of fullscreen apps like Windows 8 using pywebkitgtk library in Ubuntu & Linux Mint. The webkit version it was using when I tested it back an year ago was 0.8. But it had supported pretty nice features like location, video, audio, canvas etc.
How to test?
- Install pywebkitgtk on your machine. for that you need atleast 2.7 for python. Also install pygtk as the provide gtk bindings through python
- Copy the contents of support in home folder. Open full.py in text editor. Browse to this line "view.open('file:///home//support/index.html')". Put your username in place of & save it.
- Type "cd support" in terminal.
- Now type "python full.py"
- Voila it will start running!!. To exit the app press ` (the key above tab and bellow escape)
Why build it?
I am quite attracted by the concept of Phonegap where it makes sure that the end-developer doesn't need to worry about modifying the native core of the app and concentrate on HTML/JS/CSS app. Also I wanted to try the new Windows 8 frameless fullscreen app concept in linux so I tried some of my luck and got a fullscreen app running HTML5 web app. With a decent UI framework we can make our own UI. Go ahead and try some of your luck and try making an offline app without using a local server.
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