Comments on: Google Web Toolkit 1.2 Uses WebKit http://webkit.org/blog/81/google-web-toolkit-12-uses-webkit/ All about WebKit development Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:00:28 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jeff Schiller http://webkit.org/blog/81/google-web-toolkit-12-uses-webkit/comment-page-1/#comment-13169 Jeff Schiller Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:54:23 +0000 http://webkit.org/blog/?p=81#comment-13169 Google realizes that the situation we are in with web development right now is similar to the situation that early developers faced when having to port applications between processors - you have to contend with each (virtual) machine's idiosyncracies, levels of support, bugs, etc. That's why higher level languages were invented - to abstract those niggling details and way and let developers be more productive. And Google's not alone. Sun, Adobe, Dojo, OpenLaszlo and even Microsoft (Atlas) all realize that we need to "move up the stack" in web development to get away from all this browser compatibility ridiculousness. Google realizes that the situation we are in with web development right now is similar to the situation that early developers faced when having to port applications between processors – you have to contend with each (virtual) machine’s idiosyncracies, levels of support, bugs, etc. That’s why higher level languages were invented – to abstract those niggling details and way and let developers be more productive.

And Google’s not alone. Sun, Adobe, Dojo, OpenLaszlo and even Microsoft (Atlas) all realize that we need to “move up the stack” in web development to get away from all this browser compatibility ridiculousness.

]]> By: nickfitz http://webkit.org/blog/81/google-web-toolkit-12-uses-webkit/comment-page-1/#comment-13108 nickfitz Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:32:43 +0000 http://webkit.org/blog/?p=81#comment-13108 It's always struck me as bizarre that Google think this is a good idea. If you want to help people to write JavaScript applications, surely it would be rather more useful if they were written in, oh, I don't know... JavaScript? It’s always struck me as bizarre that Google think this is a good idea. If you want to help people to write JavaScript applications, surely it would be rather more useful if they were written in, oh, I don’t know… JavaScript?

]]> By: Myrd http://webkit.org/blog/81/google-web-toolkit-12-uses-webkit/comment-page-1/#comment-13074 Myrd Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:39:04 +0000 http://webkit.org/blog/?p=81#comment-13074 Nice Nice

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