Simple/Best way to load Web App as Windows Desktop Application?

I myself was looking for an all around solution for awhile. I tried everything from TideSDK, AppJS, Appcelerator Titanium, native code in VB.NET, XCode, Python, C++, Electron, node-webkit, etc: Basically you name it I've tried it.

Note Electron is nice, but it only runs on 64bit processors. So node-webkit is good if you want to run your app on 32bit processors.

So I decided to build my own open source solution called WebDGap.

Currently WebDGap runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Google Chrome and as a web application!

Watch the How To Video to learn, well how to use the app obviously.

Here's a screenshot.

Mac user's can merge your exported app into 1 .app mac file. This can be done with Automator (and a little shell scripting).

There's also a coding playground I made for mobile users that has this feature built in called kodeWeave.

Here's a Tic-Tac-Toe game I'm going to export as a Mac App:

Now the web app is running as a native Mac application!

A simple VB.NET application should do the trick. Just create a new Windows Froms project, double click on the form, mark everything an paste this:

Public Class Form1    '############## Settings ##############'    'Change to your URL    Dim url As String = "http://google.de"    'Change to the text the window title should have    Dim title As String = "Your Title here"    'Change to the windows size you wish to use    Dim window_size As Size = New Size(800, 600)    '                                  ^X^, ^Y^    '########### End of Settings ##########'    Dim WithEvents WebBrowser1 As New WebBrowser    Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load        Me.Text = title        Me.Size = window_size        Me.Controls.Add(WebBrowser1)        WebBrowser1.Dock = DockStyle.Fill        WebBrowser1.Navigate(url)    End Sub    Private Sub WebBrowser1_Navigated(sender As Object, e As WebBrowserNavigatedEventArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.Navigated        Dim elements As HtmlElementCollection        elements = WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("img")        For Each element As HtmlElement In elements            element.SetAttribute("border", "0")        Next    End SubEnd Class

Edit the settings and press F5 to run. Voila, you should see you WebApp in a Desktop Application.

Google chrome has a 'save shortcut' in the options menu. Menu>tools>create shortcut... I think. (Posting from mobile)

When you open the shortcut, it will open it in it's own window. like an standalone app. Hope this helps.

Edit: prism was from mozilla. I'm sure there is a similar function in firefox.