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the HTML5 JS APIs provide most desktop functionality you could want to access from the browser - does that cover what you mean? Reading location, video & audio, interacting with local files, that sort of thing.



Stuff like global keyboard shortcuts still isn't possible though. And you're stuck with the browser's notification system.




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