klokan
commented
7 years ago 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/
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.