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default linkage</span></a></span> </h1> <p class="darkgray font13"> <span class="sender pipe"><a href="/search?l=google-web-toolkit-contributors@googlegroups.com&q=from:%22Matt+Mastracci%22" rel="nofollow"><span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Matt Mastracci</span></span></a></span> <span class="date"><a href="/search?l=google-web-toolkit-contributors@googlegroups.com&q=date:20091124" rel="nofollow">Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:38:37 -0800</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody"> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <pre>Hey all, If I recall correctly, the original reason that GWT used iframe- wrapped scripts was to work around the buggy compression of Javascript some early versions of IE (example: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823386&Product=ie600">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823386&Product=ie600</a>) .</pre><pre> The number of users on IE 6 SP1 is likely fairly small right now and at some point, IE6 is going to drop off the map entirely. I wonder if it might be a good time for GWT to consider the switch to raw JS files and consider IE6 SP1 as a "special case" to work around. There's a number of advantages to serving raw JS: - You can serve it from a CDN (we do this right now, but it requires a lot of work on our side to track the hosted mode code) - It doesn't require an additional browser rendering context - XSLinker is no longer a special case: wrapping the code in a closure to prevent namespace pollution can be a configuration property - Better guarantees on parallel downloads for loading leftover and exclusive fragments simultaneously - Window events no longer need selection-script support to be hooked up (to work around the IE security bugs) - Less magical overall: a design closer to that of other modular JS toolkits It seems like the post-2.0 GWT codebase would be a reasonable time to proceed along this path. I've been using this approach for some time and it's been working very well. Thoughts? 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