Why don't you feature the Google products that use GWT in the gallery? http://gwtgallery.appspot.com/
I'm always coming up against the argument that Google doesn't use GWT, always. It's annoying and I shouldn't have to make that sale and I wouldn't need to if the gallery featured those products On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:07 AM, David Chandler <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
