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To be a complete format:

• Client
  • Clickable portable shortcuts for major platforms.
    • Windows, a relative .lnk to a configurable launcher.
    • Linux, a relative freedesktop.org Desktop Entry
    • OS X, an entire portable application bundle
  • Standalone shells for major platforms
    • Windows HTA
    • firefox -chrome "" (working only on Linux)
    • chrome --app ""
    • automator web popup on OS X
    • suggest a modern browser upgrade if none is found
    • ??? extract browser identifying library ??? (could get quite big)
  • Command line launchers for major platforms.
  • Icons!
    • Native icns for OS X + Info.plist entry
    • .bat mslink rewrite on Windows
    • .sh .desktop rewrite on Linux
  • Cross-platform uniform window size.
  • Auto unlock zones on Windows after downloading
• Server
  • Integrate a micro server on dumb containers (OS X and bare browsers).
  • Samples for popular architectures
  • Downloading dependencies
• Traditional ports (automatically creating traditional formats from AppPacks)
  • AppImage
  • makeself
  • NSIS
  • DMG

To-Be-Organized References:

• https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/CFBundles/BundleTypes/BundleTypes.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000123i-CH101-SW19
• https://github.com/probonopd/appimagekit
• http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/
• http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-files/how-to-create-a-shortcut-with-relative-path/3e1b0ede-1e18-4ecd-937b-66756d3409d3
• http://lifehacker.com/5823972/create-floating-desktop-webapps-in-os-x-lion-with-automator
• https://github.com/megastep/makeself
• http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options#-chrome_chrome_URL
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18029625/when-launching-google-apps-from-command-line-dont-want-to-open-google-chrome