During his keynote presentation at OSCON last year, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth described application extensibility as an important enabler of innovation and user empowerment. Citing the Firefox ...

At the Node+JS Interactive conference in Montreal, the OpenJS Foundation announced that the Electron framework has joined the foundation. Electron is a popular cross-platform desktop application ...

Tool combines the Electron framework and a shared JavaScript runtime to create lightweight “sketches” with native app capabilities ...

Whether you're building a Web or desktop application, here's a round-up of tools for building the interface with plain old HTML. Being able to work comfortably on Web-related code elements -- HTML, ...

First look: Qt 5 makes JavaScript a first-class citizen for app development The community behind the Qt project has issued an alpha release of Qt 5.

On the desktop, the biggest improvement appears to be an new JavaScript compiler known as IonMonkey, which Moziilla claims will allow web apps and games will run up to 25 percent faster.

Google is killing off its existing Google Chat app this month and making it a Chrome-based Progressive Web App (PWA) that behaves like a native desktop app. Google issued the alert to its ...