On Jan 31, 2009, at 9:19 PM, Tycon wrote:
I'm not talking about facebook/youtube type sites, I'm talking about a real web application where users access information, enter information, search and analyze information, and visualize information. I'm not creating web sites for popularity contests, but using the web as a platform for real software applications that provide an actual (business) service. For that it's much better to use more client side (e.g. javascript) code to make it seem like a real desktop app. If you just want to create some flicker slideshow derivative, then yes you can use php or whatever other server side "application" code.
Is gmail a real web application? As others have mentioned, Google isn't using GWT for gmail, in fact, according to this article Google is NOT using GWT for *any* of its online AJAX applications:
http://ajax.phpmagazine.net/2007/03/why_can_google_not_eat_its_dog.htmlThe article is a bit old, so maybe they've started using it now, who knows, the fact is that they clearly were able to build a real web application with ZERO GWT. If you're trying to make website for real software apps, maybe you should consider why Google isn't using GWT itself?
Cheers, Ben
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