This actually looks nice for a prototype! The data is well laid out. This is probably the first app that convinced me that Metro might work out in the end.

I think this is what they may aim for, with .NET and Silverlight.

If I got this correctly, you could just use managed .NET, an ARM CLR, and you'd be good to go, your application would run pretty much anywhere.

NATO aircrafts have OTAN printed on it because the two official languages used in NATO are English and French. OTAN means Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord.

Facebook would be a good example of this. In IE, rendering time allows the full page with images to be loaded before displaying it. I used to have up to 70% of my CPU eaten by IE7 trying to display the page (just to resituate, this was on an Eee PC 701). Chrome on the other hand displays the page much faster, and images are still loading after the page render. CPU utilization was also lower, hovering around 20%. I did not time both browsers and I don't have my Eee anymore. But I think it is (or was) a good example of a Javascript heavy website. Gmail is also a good example of a Javascript-loaded website.

How about Robogeisha? Is she safe?

I don't know about elsewhere, but this exists in France already. It's called e-Carte Bleue. You have a program on your computer, you enter an amount of money, you press generate. It calls back your bank, asks for authorization and responds back with a one-time CC number. While it doesn't work absolutely everywhere, it's damn useful to test out stuff. It costs not much IIRC, I don't use it that much these days (I only buy from trusted sources)...

Of course, you cannot book tickets you have to retrieve at the station/airport with this, but it's the most convenient system I found yet.