On Sunday, September 1, 2013 7:28:36 AM UTC+2, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > > I'm going through @Deprecated methods in GWT working on refactoring > Google's code base to avoid them, and I notice there's a deprecated > DOM.getAttribute(Element, String) method that recommends to use > DOM.getElementProperty(Element, String) instead... but they both just call > Element.getPropertyString(String), so why aren't we recommending people to > call that directly and bypass the DOM static helpers? >
Legacy. Most of the DOM class is just legacy, back when com.google.gwt.dom didn't exist yet and all we had was c.g.g.u.c.DOM and c.g.g.u.c.Element. I think I once proposed deprecating the DOM class but was told some things had no equivalent elsewhere so it was a bad idea; there's also the problem that many widgets still use c.g.g.u.c.DOM and have never been migrated to c.g.g.dom.client.Element equivalents. I think we can now safely remove getAttribute and start deprecating other methods of c.g.g.u.c.DOM (e.g. getElementProperty) -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
