On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 4:38:47 PM UTC+2, David wrote: > When servlet engines first came on the scene , developers were writing > stringified content directly to the HttpResponse.
Absolutely, from that point of view (and I remember cgi scripts), template engines are a big enhancement to what existed before! But imagine telling developers from a different field, who have never looked into web development before, that there's - one approach that is based on sending the complete same "<html><head>...</head><body><div>...</div></body>" over and over again, after using a template to replace just a small part of it. - and there's a second approach that just gets the necessary data from the server, and then updates the view (making use of the specific client's features) Which one would they choose? I believe it might be a hard time arguing in favor of the first approach. > Eliminating them completely has always been a tough sell. > > The only significant technical argument against full-ajax is probably the SEO argument. Then again, it's not hard to make it work with Google Search<https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started>. And other search engines, while maybe not treating it perfectly yet, will eventually have to improve their strategy, too. (Note: In Germany, this is not much of an issue, as Google Search has a market share of >95%<http://www.chip.de/news/Suchmaschinen-Statistik-Google-als-Alleinherrscher_54987735.html> here) > Eliminating them completely has always been a tough sell. Luckily GWT > does not require this . > > I agree. The decision is separate from GWT/other JS framework. And GWT doesn't restrict what you can do in web development. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/MAdGydemJkcJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
