davecahill wrote: > What is the advantage of the Jetty webserver over the approach below? > > If there are none, I imagine the server is left in trunk for coherence > with other SIMILE widgets. > > I think it gives a wrong impression that Timeline would need Java > hosting - if it serves no purpose, wouldn't it be better to remove the > extraneous parts from SVN? > We use Jetty because some browsers behave differently for file:// URLs and http:// URLs (e.g., security issues). (Maybe modern browsers are now more uniform.) For Flash-based widgets like Runway, this difference is even more pronounced. So it's good to test both cases.
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