Can you make a desktop application run in a browser?
desktop-application, web-applications
Solution
This answer might be a little beyond what you're looking for, but for the sake of completeness I feel it's worth mentioning:
Thanks to emscripten you can compile anything that can be made into LLVM bytecode (like C or C++) into JavaScript. For example, Unreal Engine 4 was compiled into JS and was able to be run inside of Firefox, without plugins, at around half of native speed. In addition, a list of games, game-engines, emulators, frameworks, and programming languages have been compiled to run as JS in the browser.
So, if you have the source of the application that you want to run in the browser and you don't mind some tinkering, you might be able to get it running with emscripten.
Problem
Is there a way to take a desktop application and make it run in a browser without having to recode everything? I'm a front end developer that edits basic HTML CSS and Javascript, and my boss has asked me to try to get an application he found to run on our website. I am doubting there is an easy solution but I just need to find out if it is possible, and if not, then what are the basic steps I would need to try and get the same functionality of the app, in a browser on our site?