On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:59 AM, FractalBob <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand that an app can't create socket connections, so what > puzzles me is that mail clients, such as Thunderbird, which are > written using JavaScript, are able to run at all. Any comments?
You're confusing "apps written in Javascript" with "apps that run in a browser's sandbox". The two are not equal. Anything built on top of Gecko (Thunderbird, Firefox, Seamonkey, etc.) is a native app skeleton with Javascript flesh. Anything built with GWT is a complicated web page. The security concerns are different, the execution evironments are different, the goals are different--in fact, the only things "the same" are that they're both implemented in Javascript, which is a pretty meaningless parameter. Ian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
