HOWTO: A desktop web application to search Flickr

In this example we'll show how to convert a simple XHTML form into a desktop web application. In fact there is so little to it that it barely warrants a page...all you need to do is rename any HTML or XHTML document so that the file extension is .webapp--or deliver an application from a server with the MIME type application/webapp+xml--and Sidewinder will be triggered to open and run your document as a desktop web application.

Getting started

To begin we'll take the Flickr search form and rename the file so that its file extension is .webapp. Once you have saved the file, double-click it and Sidewinder will open it.

You can run also run this web application directly from our SVN server.

Now that we have a desktop web application that we can work on, we'll start to add some more features.