Using JavaScript to create internet-facing desktop applications

Sidewinder fully supports JavaScript as a way to create powerful, internet-facing, desktop applications. Sidewinder also includes a number of built-in objects that extend JavaScript in order to make GUI applications easier to build.

In this section we show how to use these features to blur the boundary between the desktop and the rest of the internet.

To run any of the examples in the following sections:

• ensure that you have the latest version of Sidewinder installed;
• copy the JavaScript file you wish to run, to a local directory;
• click on the right-hand mouse over the js file you just copied;
• choose Open With;
• choose SWViewer2.