Arthur, No, we are not closing DevMode. Our client app is not small. Refreshing DevMode in 2.0 takes 20-30 seconds on a decent multi-core workstation. Often, we are only able to refresh a handful of times before we start running into out-of-memory exceptions and browser crashes (FF 3.5.6). I don't want to sound unappreciative - DevMode in 2.0 is MUCH MUCH faster than before. We are very excited about this. However, I rarely need to use the debugger in the actual client. Most of the time I just want to refresh the layout or test the usability of a widget. For this, DevMode is overkill and, in fact, useless for testing real world UI latency.
Draft Compile is a wonderful idea but even it takes over a minute to compile a single permutation of our app. At the end of the day, all i want to do is make a small change to a widget and refresh my browser to test the layout, look and feel, and usability. over and over and over. Sometimes i might need to debug my ui logic but not most of the time. Brad -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
