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Impressive. May I ask what libraries do you use for the menubar and all UI widgets?

Also, is the web a "pretty proxy" that redirect everything to a node.js server which does the actual work?

We use a custom built server on top of V8. Unlike Node it's sync and modelled after http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/prefork.html

It's a kind of a Javascript framework called Cappucino, I assume.

Just for the sake of references, the same is also possible with 280 North!