Sidewinder: Using internet languages to create desktop applications

Sidewinder is built on a simple but powerful philosophy: namely, that an enormous class of desktop applications being developed today make use of the internet, therefore the best languages to use to develop those applications are those devised for the web.

To achieve this, Sidewinder brings together standard languages such as XHTML, XForms, MathML, SVG and Ajax to create a flexible application development framework. But at the same time it provides all of the functionality we'd expect from desktop applications, such as docking to a screen edge, auto-hiding, transparency and opacity.

Sidewinder turns every web-page into a full-featured desktop application, making programming as easy as coding XHTML, as well as supporting the writing of complete applications in JavaScript.

[Additional notes: Sidewinder will shortly become an open source project.]