The choice for Javascript is the right one for web development due to the first-class support it has from all browsers. Improvements might come more gradually than with competing technologies like applets & Flash, but it's integration is far more natural and there's a lot of important improvements coming (especially with HTML5 support which has a pretty damn cool feature-set).
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Clint Gilbert < [email protected]> wrote: > > -----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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
