And if we can get GwtQuery to the point where a lot of people really like it, I think we'd seriously consider rolling it into GWT proper.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Ray Cromwell <[email protected]> wrote: > GwtQuery was developed before Gwt 2.0 and it's been a while since it's > been updated, but I believe it always was the intent for it to be a > 'proving ground' for bringing CSS selectors and jQuery like > functionality into GWT core. Besides GWT 2.0 and/or IE8, let me know > any issues that are most important to you. Perhaps I can grant those > interested in helping comitter access. > > -Ray > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:12 PM, jarrod <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, I am quite familiar with the project and have tried using it > > several times. Unfortunately, it does not work very well with GWT 2.0, > > does not support IE8, and appears to be dead as far as code > > maintenance. I certainly wish that weren't the case, but given the > > outstanding issues and lack of any code commits... what can you do? > > > > > http://code.google.com/p/gwtquery/issues/list?can=1&q=&colspec=ID+Type+Status+Priority+Milestone+Owner+Summary&cells=tiles > > > > > > > > On Feb 9, 10:26 pm, John Tamplin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:51 PM, jarrod <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > I have to believe this topic has been broached before, but why does > >> > GWT not contain any kind of CSS selector engine? > >> > >> > More and more I am using GWT to build JavaScript API tools for this > >> > that or the other, and often this means integration with non-GWT code > >> > (read: hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript). > >> > >> > Tool kits like JQuery and Dojo provide great helper methods for > >> > manipulating the DOM via CSS selectors - a feature that is distinctly > >> > absent from GWT. And yet, because of the vast differences in browser > >> > support for various CSS selector methods (and CSS support itself), it > >> > seems like a perfect fit for GWT, given the deferred binding > >> > capabilities the compiler offers. > >> > >> > I do not believe GWT needs to support all the fancy helper "shortcut" > >> > methods that other toolkits provide. Most of the extra features like > >> > animation already have reasonable equivalents in GWT, and JQuery's > >> > method chaining is just a hard-to-read way of minifying your code - > >> > something GWT also already does. :-) > >> > >> > Probably my favorite CSS engine right now is Sizzle JS (http:// > >> > sizzlejs.com/) and I can't imagine it would be hard to write GWT > >> > bindings for this library (it has three public methods in the API!). > >> > In fact, if I can't find them with a quick Google search, maybe I'll > >> > start a new project to do so. > >> > >> > The bindings would be a good start, but this is definitely a feature > >> > I'd like to see get first-class support in GWT. > >> > >> Have you seenhttp://code.google.com/p/gwtquery/wiki/GettingStarted? > >> > >> -- > >> John A. Tamplin > >> Software Engineer (GWT), Google > > > > -- > > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors > -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
