Thanks for mentioning Sumwire. I did not know about that application. I allways been interested in those types of applications to see what i can "steal" from them :)
Regards, Alain 2011/3/15 David Chandler <drfibona...@google.com> > Thanks for the vote of confidence, Dal. In fairness, there are some cases > where you wouldn't use GWT, and writing a static Web page with NO Javascript > is certainly one of them. GWT is intended for rich Internet applications. > > GWT incurs some overhead just to bring in the base JRE, so if all you need > is a few lines of Javascript, there's not a compelling case for GWT. But I > know of an app that started with a few lines and grew to 3000 lines of > script, at which point the developers wished they'd used GWT even for the > few lines. > > Apps that benefit the most from GWT are those that could not conceivably be > written without it. One example that comes to mind is Sumwise, which > implements a complete financial modeling language and spreadsheet in the > browser. Large projects / teams also get the most from GWT due to the > improved manageability of a strongly typed language vs. a dynamic language. > > /dmc > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Gal Dolber <gal.dol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have been working with gwt for more than 2 years now and I can't imagine >> a page where I won't use gwt. >> >> If you really try you may find some cases where handwritten js produce a >> smaller page than gwt. It is also probable than in the small size of that >> cases the difference won't matter. But I doubt you will get a better >> performance from js than gwt. >> >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:27 PM, ss.require <ss.requ...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Let's take a common non very interactive page, like a common >>> "Wikipedia" page. For such pages, where there is not a lot of >>> javascript: Compiled GWT JS size > handwritten JS size and it's more >>> optimal(performance overhead) to use simple JavaScript than GWT >>> >>> On the other hand, if web-page is very interactive, like Gmail, then : >>> Compiled GWT JS size < handwritten JS size due to GWT's optimizations. >>> In such cases it's more optimal(performance overhead) to use GWT than >>> JavaScript. >>> >>> In general, It would be a mistake to use GWT for Wikipedia due to >>> performance overhead. Am i right? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Google Web Toolkit" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com >>> . >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Guit: Elegant, beautiful, modular and *production ready* gwt applications. >> >> http://code.google.com/p/guit/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Web Toolkit" group. >> To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > David Chandler > Developer Programs Engineer, Google Web Toolkit > w: http://code.google.com/ > b: http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/ > t: @googledevtools > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > -- GWT API for the Flash Platform http://code.google.com/p/gwt4air/ http://www.gwt4air.appspot.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
