[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi devs, > > We have planned the GWT 1.4 upgrade for the next XWatch milestone at the > end of march. For this, we need to make a decision regarding the web-gwt > dependencies (for the moment, the xwiki gwt dialogs rely on the gwt-tk > library that does not yet have a release for gwt 1.4) so we must choose > from: > - using another library to provide this functionality, particularly the > MyGwt library > pros: nice looks and good API + the possibility of using the library > components in including projects. > cons: code changes required by the clean switch (updating all involved > classes to use library API instead of GWT API), the lack of a maven > repository with all available MyGwt versions (only 0.5.0 rc). As well, > while testing, I experienced a couple of rendering issues (caused, > seemingly by the use of the strict or xhtml DTD). > - using the native gwt modal dialogs introduced in 1.4: > pros: not styled (we totally control the styling process and can build > an > uniform look); widgets consistency, at least at this level. A big > advantage is that the web-gwt module will not depend on any other library > anymore. > cons: not styled, the usual GWT API (which can be poor in some > situations); GWT also has some problems caused by the standard mode > interpretation in browsers (caused by the doctype declaration) but in > this situation the code seems to be stable. > > What do you think? >
Can you provide screenshots of how unstyled the pure-GWT dialogs look? Can you ask on the gwt-tk mailing list what's the status on the next release? I saw on the mailinglist/issue tracker that there is some activity towards a 1.4-compatible release. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
