Your thoughts on "deploying" a web application to a desktop by wrapping it in a google chrome window?
Adobe's Air is based off webkit (like chrome) and will allow you ship your web application as a windows or mac application. Since it is webkit your site should render very similar to how it does in chrome.
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/?promoid=3tv350_5135L
You should also check out titanium, it does something very similar:
Use node-webkit. You get same run-time as Chromium and you can disable node if you don't need it.
Create package.json:
{ "name": "nw-demo", "main": "http://example.com/index.html"}main: Points to a Url.
App is delivered, cached exactly like in a browser.No need to install browser.Disable location bar.User can click on an icon.You can control the viewport.You can also disable some of the Javascript security sandbox and can get native access (Although you may want to keep your app purely web).
There are good number of tools to support your workflow.Gurnt, Karma-Nodewebkit launcher etc.