Chrome OS / Chromebook application?

[klokan]

It would be amazing to have the Mirador desktop packed and published as a Chrome OS application.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps

Everybody having Chromebook can then work with the local images as well as with remote images - it means a practical use in all classrooms.

Chromebook apps have access to authentication (they know who is logged in) so the app can be directly authenticated against a remote storage where the image data can be published too.

[klokan]

Chrome app makes really sense only for Chrome OS - so Chromebooks.

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/

Without extra local dependencies, it could be quite easy to pack Mirador this way.

Important to know - Google is killing these outside of Chrome OS:
https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.html
http://www.omgchrome.com/not-joke-google-killing-chrome-apps/