There are some video tags that you can programmatically control
through JavaScript / GWT. (I think it's the object tag, but you'll
need to do your own research.)
Personally, when I did something similar, I ended up using an embedded
Flash object. It's much more flexible with regard to events.
I don't see the point. GWT is designed to run in a browser; if you
want to do a true desktop application, there are plenty of desktop
development systems that are much better. C#, Java, Objective C...
They're a dime a dozen.
If all you're looking to do is get rid of the browser chrome and give
You can only do what you can do from JavaScript. This means that GWT
can only open connections to the web server that's serving it.
You will need to use whatever technology that you web server is
running in order to access MySQL. This means that you'd need to write
some kind of data access