There has been a fair amount of confusion over the use of Hyperlink (see issue
1960 <http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=1960> for
just one example). I am adding Javadoc and an assertion to help point
people in the right direction, but I think the main confusion (aside from
the name, which is probably too late to change) stems from the inclusion of
click handlers on Hyperlink. If the role of Hyperlink is to alter the
history state, I can't think of any reason a well-designed history app would
need it (it would instead set the listeners on the history state so it would
work the same regardless of how that history state was achieved). If for
some reason an app does need the functionality, it just uses Anchor instead
and does History.newItem() in its listener.
So, I propose to deprecate {add,remove}Click{Handler,Listener} with a
pointer to using Anchor instead.
Any objections?
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John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google
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