Philosophy

Sidewinder is built on a simple but powerful philosophy: Namely, that an enormous class of desktop applications being developed today make use of the internet, therefore the best languages to use to develop those applications are those devised for the web.

To achieve this, Sidewinder brings together standard languages such as XHTML, XForms, MathML, SVG and Ajax to create a flexible application development framework. But at the same time it provides all of the functionality we'd expect from desktop applications, such as docking to a screen edge, auto-hiding, transparency and opacity.