Joel, Will be happy to test new layouts and review API. Unfortunately, I don't use Dock, Stack, or Split in my app. I do use Absolute. And because of an interior scrolling area that fills the client, a sprinkling of resize code (after beating my head against CSS for a few days). I do use FormPanel and FlexTable, but I would expect both of those to be minimally affected or not affected by your layout as they are somewhat "micro-level" layouts not needing resize/reflow behaviors.
-Brett On Aug 18, 12:32 am, Joel Webber <j...@google.com> wrote: > The situation as I see it is this. The old layout "system" has two huge > problems:1. Some widgets (e.g., StackPanel) *cannot* be made to work as > expected in standards mode, because of changes to table rendering behavior. > 2. It's not really a "system", in the sense that it can be highly > unpredictable. > > I am quite convinced it is impossible to fix these issues in any fundamental > way, without taking an entirely different approach. See the design doc > (http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/LayoutDesign) for my > justification of this particular approach. In particular, I think it's worth > noting that while Google Wave uses different actual code (they wrote their > implementation before I did, but they didn't have to support IE6, which > drastically simplified the problem), it's philosophically the same thing. > This works quite well for them. > > As for reimplementing widgets like StackPanel, I mention in the design-doc > that several such widgets will need to be replaced, and I'm working on that > right now. The APIs won't be identical, because they need a bit more > explicit size information in some cases, but I don't believe it will be too > much trouble (I'm rewriting some of the samples to be sure). I'm hoping to > have initial implementations of Dock, Stack, and Split widgets checked in > over the next couple of days. If you could try using them and give me API > and behavior feedback, that would be really helpful. > > Thanks, > joel. > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 2:13 PM, brett.wooldridge < > > > > brett.wooldri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Cool. Then another question about the future of the new layout > > system. Is the current thinking that eventually it *will* replace all > > of the older panels? I mean, is there buy-in at Google that that is a > > desired track for this project. Or will the new layout system remain > > parallel to the original? Also, is it possible to re-write StackPanel > > etc. to be compatible with the new system so that people have a > > migration? I don't personally care about migration, because I'm > > starting nearly from scratch, but I don't want to adopt a "side-car" > > layout system that doesn't have a track into the mainline of GWT. > > > Thanks for your answers and your efforts. If there is anything I can > > do to help, let me know, I will be glad to pitch in a hand with some > > layouts or UIBinder parsers etc. if you are willing to give direction. > > > Brett > > > On Aug 15, 12:44 am, Joel Webber <j...@google.com> wrote: > > > Brett, > > > I am going to be writing adding custom parsers for the new layout panels > > > sometime soon. And the new layout system will be "de facto" in the sense > > > that I'm updating all the samples to use it (and possibly adding another > > > sample). We obviously won't be removing the "old" widgets (e.g., > > StackPanel) > > > that won't play nice in standards mode until a later release, so we don't > > > break anyone's existing projects. > > > > Cheers, > > > joel. > > > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:17 AM, brett.wooldridge < > > > > brett.wooldri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I have been tracking the process of the UIBinder and the new "pure CSS- > > > > based" layout system being driven by Joel at google. I assume these > > > > two will play nicely together in 2.0? Or will custom parsers be > > > > needed to use UIBinder with the new layout system? Sounds like the > > > > UIBinder parsers API won't be ready for public consumption in the > > > > first release. > > > > > Lastly, will the new layout system be the *defacto* layout system in > > > > 2.0? Please say yes. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
