Thanks for pointing it out. I've already answered this in the best way I know how, so I'm happy to let the community hash this one out.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/eSqUVQ8gKEMJ /dmc On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:13 AM, karthik reddy <[email protected]> wrote: > Note: I am cross-posting this on GWT-contributors group to solicit the > responses of the GWT team. The original post on the GWT group is at : > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-web-toolkit/CnjBcJsknS0 > The following were two direct quotes from Joseph Smarr (tech lead of google > plus -- plus.google.com): > (FYI: The full Q & A with the Google+ Tech Lead can be found > at: http://anyasq.com/79-im-a-technical-lead-on-the-google+-team) > "we often render our Closure templates server-side so the page renders > before any JavaScript is loaded, then the JavaScript finds the right DOM > nodes and hooks up event handlers, etc. to make it responsive (as a result, > if you're on a slow connection and you click on stuff really fast, you may > notice a lag before it does anything, but luckily most people don't run into > this in practice)." > "The cool thing about Closure templates is they can be compiled into both > Java and JavaScript. So we use Java server-side to turn the templates into > HTML, but we can also do the same in JavaScript client-side for dynamic > rendering. For instance, if you type in a profile page URL directly, we'll > render it server-side, but if you go to the stream say and navigate to > someone's profile page, we do it with AJAX and render it client-side using > the same exact template. " > > Going from the tone of the above two quotes, it seems to me that the lack of > server-side templating system in GWT (GWT has client-side templating in the > form of UiBinder but not server-side templating) , could have been one of > the reasons for not choosing GWT for the Google+ project. > What do you guys think?? > Was the lack of server side templating in GWT one of the reasons why > Google+ team did not choose GWT ?? > > PS: If you guys haven't tried Google+ yet, I would recommend you try it. > Setting aside how good of a social network/social collaboration tool it is, > I suggest you guys try it just to get a feel of its UI architecture. Every > once in a while, an application comes along and raises the bar(eg., Gmail in > 2004) in the area of UI design/UI development and I think Google plus has > done it this time around. > Also, I really appreciate the fact that GWT is an exceptional work of > engineering. My desire is to just provoke discussion in a direction that > hopefully leads to making the product even more better and increases its > technological "moat" (Warren Buffet > lingo: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/333-warren-buffett-on-castles-and-moats) > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -- David Chandler Developer Programs Engineer, GWT+GAE w: http://code.google.com/ b: http://turbomanage.wordpress.com/ b: http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/ t: @googledevtools -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
