Comments on: WebRunner 0.5 - Mac Support

By: Tejus Parikh

Tejus Parikh — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:36:50 +0000

Along with command+q to quit the app, it’d be nice if command+h to hide and command+m to minimize were enabled as well.

Thanks for the useful tool.

By: franco

franco — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:22:43 +0000

Is it possible in to change the default home page from the mozilla page to a custom one ?
- the preference browser.startup.homepage does not seem to be recognized .

Webrunner works great the first time a webapp is opened. But it we later close the app window and try to restart it it no longer works (empty page appears).

Great job!

By: Stefano

Stefano — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:20:51 +0000

Interesting but I think the project MUST grow. The ini-like file is a very good starting point but maybe you should give more (easy to implement) “config” possibilities and install/setup/enhance too (to resemble desktop applications). I’m sure your project could be as popular as Adobe AIR.

By: Mukunda Modell

Mukunda Modell — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:45:20 +0000

Mr K:

I’m working on your #2 point: My packaging wizard will allow you to build custom App bundles. Once it’s finished you can use my extension to make your own webrunner with .webapp settings embedded inside your custom dockable webrunner.app bundle.

By: Mr K

Mr K — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:19:05 +0000

Brilliant work dude. Using it to display Zimbra mail. Love it

A couple of things for Mac OS X
1) can it work with Apple+Q for quiting the app
2) can the .webapp item be dockable?

Thanks - this is great

By: Mukunda Modell

Mukunda Modell — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:44:03 +0000

I’m already on it - will have a firefox extension built soon. Though I am initially testing it as a single xul dialog within webrunner….

By: Mark Finkle

Mark Finkle — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:15:26 +0000

Cozby - I fixed the ‘close app’ problem. I also added a menu to WebRunner for quiting the app. Thanks.

By: Andreas Wuest

Andreas Wuest — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:56:50 +0000

> Mukunda - do it as a Firefox extension

Yes, that would be really cool. I’ve been thinking about this myself, something along the lines of: browse to a webpage, press “Extract to stand-alone application” (or menuitem), scrape as much information needed as possible from the page for the webapp file, let user confirm, and off you go.

By: Cozby

Cozby — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:23:03 +0000

Not sure where I should report this, but found a lil bug when using gmail webapp. When your chatting and ‘pop-out’ the chat window and then close it, it closes the entire WebRunner instance.

By: Mark Finkle

Mark Finkle — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:11:27 +0000

Mukunda - do it as a Firefox extension