-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 One reason is that Applets annoy users. You need to install the Java plugin, then when an applet loads, it takes a long time for the JRE to fire up, and the browser hangs the whole time.
Meanwhile, Flash starts right up. Flash ads might be obtrusive, but the startup overhead of the Flash applet is not. I'd much rather code in Java than Actionscript, but I'd much rather use a page with flash apps. (Barring, of course, annoying all-Flash UIs.) Dobes wrote: > Recently while cursing the slowness of GWT compilation, the slowness > in the browser, and the lack of Java 6 features, it occurred to me > that if GWT had simply been built on top of the Java Applet technology > it could really overcome these limitations. > > Does anyone know why GWT wouldn't be much better if it were java > bytecode running in an applet? All the major browsers support > applets, the Java VM runs the code nice and fast, and applets have > decent access to the DOM and the ability to run javascript. > Everything that is needed to implement GWT is available to an applet, > as far as I can tell. > > Thoughts? > > If I had time I'd experiment and try making a knock-off of GWT using a > hidden applet so I could just write every in Java, run and debug it in > the Java VM ... could even use Java's built-in RPC mechanism if I > wanted to. Interesting concept, although it's likely I'm missing > something important about why the GWT team didn't go this route in the > first place. > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknRtrcACgkQ0GFaTS4nYxse4gCdGzMi6OHfrYlxAyIYsC7RXllX gCgAoNBthgVoS4aM4N2jhfuFcIk8AiCL =9vRG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
