On Monday, November 16, 2015 at 1:28:16 PM UTC+1, stuckagain wrote: > > Thanks for all the feedback. But it does not put my mind at rest right > now. > > It would have been much better if GWT 2.8 would have provided at least the > basis for the future of GUI development - because that was one of its main > selling points for me. > > I understand why element/widget/uibinder are going away, but right now > there is no low-level alternative that would allow a less painful migration > later on. > > I am not expecting a 100% backward compatibility with 3.0, but at least > some certainty that the code rewrites will be limited or easy, if we > restrain from using certain technologies. The only certainty we have right > now is that GWT 3.0 will compile Java into JavaScript, and all the rest > will change or will just disappear assuming that there will be 3rd party > extensions. > > If GWT does not offer a basis for widget and UI development then there > will be multiple incompatible GUI libraries or frameworks that will make it > difficult to mix. >
Web Components to the rescue? As I just wrote above, Web Components can be written in Java with JsInterop, and can be consumed quite easily with GWT too (whether the component was written with GWT or not). I know that answer won't satisfies you as you have to deal with ancient IEs, but Google has no such need, and has, over the past year(s?), expressed its will to simply stop supporting them in GWT altogether (Vaadin and Sencha were those asking for keeping support in); so they won't invest in such backwards-compatibility (I'm talking about browser here). > I could take the approach of JsInterop with AngularJS, but Angular 2,x is > also not going to offer backward compatibility. So I solve one problem and > end up with another one. > > I guess I will be trying UiBinder with GQuery and not rely on Widget for > my project. The UiBinder might disappear, but we are using mostly plain > HTML and Bootstrap styles. So we are only interested in binding events. The > UiBinder templates will be easy to migrate later on. > > Any idea what is going on with Singular ? Is it also abandoned or will it > finally appear after GWT 2.8 is final ? > My impression was that they're waiting for J2CL (but I have absolutely no insight) -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/02a9f89b-1420-4289-be10-f8094decdfe7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
