GUI apps in javascript without a browser?

Question

I would like to use javascript to develop general-purpose GUI applications. Initially these are to run on Windows, but I would like them to ultimately be cross-platform.

Answer 1

Prova Titanium. It's a development platform that allows you to build apps for mobile and desktop using the common web languages (html, javascript, php, etc).

It's open source!

Answer 2

JsLibs

Today I came across this: http://code.google.com/p/jslibs/
(from DZone) JS Libs seems to meet my requirement. I'll have a look, and if I find that it's interesting, I'll post back here.

Answer 3

Check out Adobe AIR.

From Wikipedia:

Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.

Also check out Mozilla Prism (in beta).