"It has a Node.JS backend and uses a web wrapper to load it in, they even wrote up a blog post about how they squeezed every ounce of performance out of the web UIView and I think it works well."
Can you give a link to that blog post? I took a quick look at LinkedIn's corporate and developer blogs but couldn't come across it.
The first link is the one I referenced in my comment RE: Node.JS and heavy HTML5 optimisation. Other people who haven't seen them might find them interesting as well.
Can you give a link to that blog post? I took a quick look at LinkedIn's corporate and developer blogs but couldn't come across it.