Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Re: Using GWT for a large UI project

Thanks Maxim (saw your email),

http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/salesdashboard/ says "Missing
plugin". So I left ;)
I'm sure silverlight can have great results for controlled end user
environments, but one of our goals is to use plain browser
functionality, available on all devices.


On Sep 1, 4:40 pm, Maxim <maxim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Marius,
>
> in your document you compare GWT wih ASP.NET AJAX but I think it
> should be rather compared with Silverlight, this is a "client-side"
> technology like GWT which is not linked to server. ASP.NET AJAX is
> something very different and demands IIS to be installed server-side.
>
> My story about this comparison. We are having good customer we were
> trying to develop forusingGWT. Actually skeleton was developedusing
> GWT but then he wanted more modern appearance, and he could pay money
> for commercial libs. We figured out that commercial libraries for
> Silverlight are light years ahead of what GWT 3rd party libraries can
> offer. Price for such libraries are relatively low ( say in comparison
> to developer monthly salary), so cost is not a big problem I think.
>
> e.g.http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/salesdashboard/
>
> Still we love GWT and use it heavily for sayhttp://www.projectkaiser.com:8080/
>
> One more thing: from time to time we have browser-compatibilty-related
> issues ( not so big though )  with GWT, especially in Firefox.
>
> Maxim

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