Here's more info on how the 'installable apps' work: http://code.google.com/chrome/apps/ http://code.google.com/chrome/apps/ "Many installable web apps are hos

Here's more info on how the 'installable apps' work: http://code.google.com/chrome/apps/ http://code.google.com/chrome/apps/ "Many installable web apps are hosted apps—normal websites with a bit of extra metadata. You can build and deploy hosted apps exactly as you would build and deploy any web app, using any server-side or client-side technologies you like. The only difference is that you must provide a small manifest file that describes the app. If you want your app to work especially well offline or to be tightly integrated with the Google Chrome browser, you can create a packaged app. A packaged app is just a web app that the user downloads. Packaged apps have the option of using the Google Chrome Extension APIs, allowing packaged apps to change the way Chrome behaves or looks."