Still at the experimental stage, but here's a screencast of GTK+ desktop apps and widgets running in a web browser, via HTML5 magic. Lots of collaboration and remote operation potential. The disruption potential here is huge. GTK+ is one of only three major multi-platform desktop widget toolkits that have accessibility baked in (the ATK library). Thousands of desktop apps have been developed with it. Coming to a browser near you?
Gom allows you to write GTK applications using JavaScript and an HTML-like widget layout syntax.
It does this by first implementing a W3C DOM Level 1 (Core) API for interacting with GTK widgets and windows, then by providing a JavaScript binding to this layer.
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Midori is a fast and lightweight web browser that uses the WebKit rendering engine and the GTK+ interface.
Midori is a fast little WebKit browser with support for HTML5. It can manage
many open tabs and windows. The URL bar completes history, bookmarks, search
engines and open tabs out of the box. Web developers can use the powerful
web inspector that is a part of WebKit. Individual pages can easily be turned
into web apps and new profiles can be created on demand.
A number of extensions are included by default:
* Adblock with support for ABP filter lists and custom rules is built-in.
* You can download files with Aria2 or SteadyFlow.
* User scripts and styles support a la Greasemonkey.
* Managing cookies and scripts via NoJS and Cookie Security Manager.
* Switching open tabs in a vertical panel or a popup window.]