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QtWebKit: http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKit

WebKitGtk: http://live.gnome.org/WebKitGtk

I have no personal experience with either. It would be rather bleeding edge on both ends to use either of these to interface with nodejs for a desktop application. And then once you realize the complexities you might wonder why bother making it a desktop application at all.

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do you think there is need for javascript for desktop like javascript wrapper for Qt?

A few years ago I would've said yes. But, thanks to the iPhone and Android, so much new technology has come to web browsers recently that there aren't many reasons to develop native desktops apps anymore.

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