GWT, Gears and may be, an "Android Portable Runtime". Looks like steps towards domination...
Regards On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Jess Holle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Google is now promising a browser to out-Firefox Firefox -- and bundle > Gears in the picture. On the one hand, that's great. On the other hand, > we're back to the same old issues. If applications in it do not run in > other browsers, i.e. Internet Explorer, that customers insist on using, then > they are at worst non-starters and at best, no longer portable, run (most) > anywhere web apps. I thought it was interesting was the opening punchline > of Google's treatise: > > "Today, most of what we use the web for on a day-to-day basis aren't just > web pages. They're applications." > > Google goes on to describe what could be an interesting application > platform but that will certainly be less portable than most existing web > application technologies for some time to come. They never really justify > why the application platform should be a browser at all. In fact they make > a special point to note that your applications can hide the fact that they > have any relation to the browser whatsoever (which has raised some security > concerns...). The between the lines message seems to be that they don't want > the application platform to be anything > (Flash/AIR/Silverlight/JavaFX/whatever) that won't have Google advertising > right in the center of the experience -- and seem to be afraid that this > might occur if someone does not greatly improve web application client > technology. > > In the end I have to applaud Google if they succeed in moving client > technology *as a whole *forward. The jury won't weigh in on this for a > while yet -- it still hasn't for Android after all. > > -- > Jess Holle > > > > > -- Amarjeet Singh Phone: +91-98712-76661 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
