Hey Ian,

Thanks very much for your reply.

I don't absolutely need the widget-y stuff, no..

I gave this a quick bash to see if I could get something working
quickly. I have a simple GWT app that should add a button to the end
of the page it loads in. It works OK in a test page on my machine,
loading the .js file from a remote server (I have compiled it for
cross site access).

However when I get a firefox extension to embed the script in a page
on page load, it seems to lock up the page.. it'll load the right page
initially, but then it 'redirects', almost, to a blank page and loads
i perpetually. Not sure if there's a quick and easy answer to that
question, maybe there's more configuration that needs doing in order
to allow a gwt app to be dynamically added to an arbitrary page (?)

On May 27, 9:17 pm, Ian Petersen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it depends on what you're doing when you "modify the page".
> As of GWT 1.5 (the last version I've used personally), it's difficult
> to construct a Widget around an existing DOM element.  On the other
> hand, if you don't need GWT's Widget API, then GWT is exactly what you
> need.
>
> Some people are confused by GWT's offering, but it's really important
> to remember that it's a very modular tool.  The only thing you need to
> have in order to say you're "using GWT" is the GWT compiler.  The
> download also includes various modules for doing things in a web page,
> though, that make your life easier.  At the very bottom is the DOM API
> that mirrors the browser's DOM API into Java.  There's also a module
> for doing AJAXy stuff, and an RPC-over-HTTP module that's built on top
> of that.  If it suits you, you can use the Widget API, but it's not
> necessary.
>
> Ian
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