Out of curiosity do you know how they get new e-mails to appear in the web UI? Is it AJAX push or do they just do a regular poll every x seconds?
If it's AJAX push approach, I wonder if there's any scalability issues with maintaining so many open TCP connections & if they just solve it by throwing hardware at the problem until it goes away, or if they do some kind of tricks as well to minimize the resource load of connections that are just waiting for data on the server. I'm guessing that load balancing would occur when the AJAX call is established due to the previous call timing out or returning data (probably live migration of connections would be far too complicated & overkill). On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Jason Essington <[email protected]>wrote: > > Since Gmail predates GWT by several years, it wasn't written in GWT ... > > As for rich text widgets, they all use the browser's built in HTML > editing capabilities, making them a bit finicky. > > -jason > > On Apr 16, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Vitali Lovich wrote: > > > Does anyone know if gmail uses GWT for its widgets and whatnot? > > Partially curiosity & partially I regularly have problems with the > > rich editing widget not displaying the cursor properly under Firefox. > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
