> 2008/10/27 Guy Rouillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Ross, you are thinking too narrowly. Think of a single code base. When > > it runs on the desktop, it has access to local file system and other OS > > facilities. When it runs in a browser like GWT does today, it degrades > > nicely and only loses minimal functionality. Write once, run anywhere.
You can already do it at no cost (i.e. no need to rewrite GWT in pure Java) with Adobe AIR or Mozilla Prism. On 27 oct, 03:51, "Ian Bambury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you gave a practical example it might help people understand the benefits We're building an ECM client with GWT, and packaging it within Adobe AIR gives us added features or enhanced user experience: - drop a file from your desktop into the app to upload it to the server (you'll have to wait for Yahoo! BrowserPlus to be unlocked if you want to do it within the browser) - click the "add document" link and, instead of the GWT DialogBox containing a FileUpload that's used when running within a browser, the app directly pops the file selection dialog, where you even can select multiple files for upload in one go (yes, I know, this could be done in any browser with a Flash object) For an application storing only personal data (i.e. nothing shared with other users or coming from/sent to the network), you could make it to run entirely client-side. This is already doable with Gears or a recent Safari/WebKit, bringing your online application off line (see Buxfer for instance), but only if you only need an SQL databse. With file-system access, you could store data within files (XML, JSON, "binary") and/or export your data into local files (images, PDFs, etc.) without having to send them to the server that would echo them for your browser to pop the download dialog box (this last part, again could be done with some Flash in a browser I guess) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
