You don't need to run a Tomcat instance. You could always just stick it behind a rather simple Apache install. I must confess I have not personally done this, but I see no reason why it would not work.
Of course, this does bring up the question of why you are deploying a web application locally. A web application without the web bit sounds quite silly. It seems like something a plain old desktop app is better suited for. -Ben On Feb 10, 3:39 pm, othman <[email protected]> wrote: > unfortunately our gwt app is client only and we don't use any server > side functionality.our app will be run from user's local file system > without deploying in a web server. > why IE made this security restriction? and why this doesn't happen in > Firefox and Chrome? > > On Feb 10, 9:34 pm, Ben Imp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You could run a local web server. I always deploy my application to a > > local Tomcat server for testing. > > > -Ben > > > On Feb 10, 3:09 pm, othman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks Ben, > > > So there is no solution other to accept and live with this security > > > restriction in IE? > > > > On Feb 10, 8:52 pm, Ben Imp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I believe your problem is the lack of a web server. IE doesn't like > > > > people opening JS-laced web pages from the local drive. Probably a > > > > security concern, I would imagine. I have noticed this with non-GWT > > > > html as well, as I will often create little html test harnesses for > > > > some jQuery work, and I get the same warning. > > > > > -Ben > > > > > On Feb 10, 2:27 pm, othman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > I'm using GWT 2.1 and IE to test the default hello world GWT app. > > > > > I compile the default Hello world GWT app and then go to HTML file and > > > > > open it with IE. > > > > > I get a red warning message "Your web browser must have JavaScript > > > > > enabled in order for this application to display correctly." > > > > > I had to allow the active content to be running in order to see the > > > > > app screen. > > > > > things are a bit different if I run the app via \\.psf\Home > > > > > \myFile.htm which is path to my Parallel's "shared directory" .. I > > > > > wouldn't see such warning. > > > > > also running in dev mode seems not to raise this warning message. > > > > > what is the problem of IE running GWT apps in web mode? > > > > > > thanks -- 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.
