I think it's completely different. This essentially lets you build local applications that use the dom as the UI and JS as the controlling language. The site

I think it's completely different. This essentially lets you build local applications that use the dom as the UI and JS as the controlling language. The site doesn't do much to explain that though, so here's a presentation: https://speakerdeck.com/zcbenz/node-webkit-app-runtime-based-on-chromium-and-node-dot-js https://speakerdeck.com/zcbenz/node-webkit-app-runtime-based... Edit: Oh yeah, sometimes folks do answer honest questions ;)