http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2007/12/blogging-from-t/ Running commentary about agile development, user experience design and Ajax. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:01:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2007/12/blogging-from-t/#comment-199 pohl Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:33:12 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=176#comment-199 <p>Ken, I think a good answer to your question is that the vendors of these devices would <br /> build a little HTTP daemon into the device. To administer your router, you would point<br /> your browser at port 8080 of the device's interface. The dynamic 'gui' would run in your<br /> browser, but anything that needed to talk to the hardware itself would happen on the<br /> server side, over some service written using GWT's RPC mechanism, etc.</p> Ken, I think a good answer to your question is that the vendors of these devices would
build a little HTTP daemon into the device. To administer your router, you would point
your browser at port 8080 of the device’s interface. The dynamic ‘gui’ would run in your
browser, but anything that needed to talk to the hardware itself would happen on the
server side, over some service written using GWT’s RPC mechanism, etc.

]]> http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2007/12/blogging-from-t/#comment-198 Ken Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:09:55 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=176#comment-198 <p>Very interesting. Makes sense in general but how could "desktop administration applications that manage their hardware" run in a browser since don't they need to access the hardware in ways that a browser can't?</p> Very interesting. Makes sense in general but how could “desktop administration applications that manage their hardware” run in a browser since don’t they need to access the hardware in ways that a browser can’t?

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