In order to even begin to execute this plan I need to install Node and figure out how to do two or three things with it. In order to figure out how to do those two or three things I need to figure out how to do anything with it at all.
OK, found something that partly answers my question as to how to do anything at all with Node. I type my script in the text editor, then open that file using the Node runtime. In the given example, my program displays some text in the console.
This only partly answers my question, because I want to write code that creates a window and a user interface in that window.
Is it possible to create desktop applications with node.js?
Answer seems to be NO.
Starting over, then: I want to create a desktop application - a
The last question is ... I could build it as ... What I want is ... and this is what it all comes down to ... a browser that saves every page I view to my hard drive automatically. When I access a page, the page gets saved to my hard drive - including all images ... I realize there could be more to a page than just the graphics and images ... so what i mean exactly and completely I can't fully say right now ... But there's a second part of the problem: now that I'm creating a collection of pages, I want to be able to view my saved pages as a slide show ... some kind of browser with next and previous buttons so I can go from saved page to saved page that way.