Ask Slashdot: Chromeless Cross-Platform Browser? 145
blakieto writes "Mozilla has the Prism project, which turned into Chromeless, which seems to have died [Note: last update was May 31]. I'm seeking a no-interface-what-so-ever cross-platform browser for use as a 'user interface host' to a self-hosted web app. Slight background: I've a professional market web app, with a large portion of the customer base unable to access public Internet connections. So, I want to make a version of my product self-hosted, with the web server and web app and everything necessary to run the web app locally installed on a user's machine. I have everything except a chromeless browser. Oh, and my customers are local police & highway patrol type organizations, most likely running an aged Windows box (probably IE6, too)."
Webkit (Score:0, Informative)
You can build a bare bones web browser in less that 100 lines of code with Python, GTK, and Webkit. If you google around you can find examples of it on sites like pastebin.
Easy (Score:5, Informative)
Use firefox with --chrome="path_to_your_homepage"
Java? (Score:1, Informative)
You can always use Java and it's Java display HTML. A single file (.jar) containing everything: server & browser. http://www.devdaily.com/blog/post/jfc-swing/how-create-simple-swing-html-viewer-browser-java. // timtux.net
Chromeless is not dead (Score:3, Informative)
I'm not sure I understand. Prism [mozillalabs.com] still exists, and it sounds like what you want, so I don't understand why you say it "turned into Chromeless."
I think he meant this announcement [mozillalabs.com], that focus is shifting from Prism to Chromeless.
But, OP is wrong about "[Chromeless] seems to have died [Note: last update was May 31]" - yes, the last blogpost was May 31, but the last source code commit on github was less than a month ago. That doesn't sound 'dead' to me.
So Chromeless sounds like the way to go here, for what OP is looking for.