I recently received a request to update / improve a relatively simple
application which is used for browsing a catalog of codes. The
original developer of the application opted for a separate cd-rom
based version (coded in VB) and web version (web version can be found
here: http://www.icn.ch/icnpweb/).

With the possibility that I might be working on creating the next
version of this browser - I was thinking I'd like to combine these as
much as possible without having to create a separate cd-rom and web
version of the application. I really think it should be implemented as
a web app first then figure out a way to make it run off the CD
(rather than the other way around).  IMHO the web version will be the
most useful for more people so the focus should be on that.  But if I
could also get it (or at least a striped down version of it) to run
off a CD - that would be great!

So my question is simply this:  have you ever created a simple web app
which could run both on the server and off a cd-rom?  The only feature
it would require, beyond serving static HTML pages is full-text
search.

My initial brainstorming came up with the idea to implement the
application with google gears and then load a copy of it into an
instance of portablefirefox (from portableapps.com) or webrunner then
burn that to the CD.  This (in theory) would create a read only
instance of the application which could be run from the portable
instance of firefox on the CD.  Any other thoughts / approaches you
might suggest?

Thanks!
Robin


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