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A comment on Ask HN: Why not Flex?.

Re:Ask HN: Why not Flex? by puredemo on Thursday September 03, 2009 @05:39PM (#803628)
Do you use jQuery for your ajax? That should resolve many of the cross-browser issues.
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Re:Ask HN: Why not Flex? by pohl on Thursday September 03, 2009 @06:25PM (#803712)
There's nothing unique about jQuery in that regard. GWT would solve the same issue.
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Re:Ask HN: Why not Flex? by teej on Thursday September 03, 2009 @06:28PM (#803719)
jQuery is unique in that he wouldn't have to change backends to use it. Similar to Prototype/scriptaculous or Mootools. GWT requires a Java backend - it's a non-trivial effort to move to.
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Re:Ask HN: Why not Flex? by nwatson on Thursday September 03, 2009 @07:52PM (#803879)
Check out http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thr... for people using client-side GWT with PHP, Python, .NET. There no absolute need for Java on the backend with GWT.
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Re:Ask HN: Why not Flex? by pohl on Saturday September 05, 2009 @09:38PM (#807345)
It is a very common misconception that GWT requires a java back-end, but it does not:

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/1.6/FAQ_Server.html#Ho...?

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