> > I'm using Cell widgets elsewhere but don't think they'll buy me enough > here because I can't use paging in this UI - I need to display the whole > table. I'm already loading using an async request.
Even if you don't use paging, it can increase the rendering speed of a basic, say, flext table. > > Thanks for the pointer to ElementBuilder. That seems promising but has > some drawbacks - it won't help me manipulate the DOM after it's been > created. Also it seems incomplete - it currently only has builders for > <div>, <select>, <option> and styles. Maybe it's a dead end and is going > to be replaced with Elemental? > Well given a builder you can call its finish() method to return the actual built DOM element that can be later reused if stored somewhere, I guess. Also AFAICT the builders are all there http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/1463812 and I don't think it's a dead end, for instance they are used internally in CellTable, they are just another (fast) way to build elements. And they have nothing to do with Elemental. > > I haven't tried any of this yet but I assumed that Elemental would work on > non-webkit browsers so long as you kept to the DOM they support (i.e. keep > to the simple stuff). Is that not correct? > Elemental is library generated automatically from the WebIDL specs, in particular the WebKit ones taken from the Dart project http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/browse/trunk/elemental/README thus I think they'll have problems with old IE versions (but maybe not with the very very basic stuff like elemental.dom.*, you need to try). Anyway I don't think it will buy you much in the short term. The IsRenderable/PotentialElement strategy seems another way to singnificantly cut down rendering time, although its "very experimental" state and I've not yet figured out its usage. See https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-web-toolkit/neeh5YxKm-I/discussion and https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-web-toolkit-contributors/g8WPRxkdqPA/discussion Thanks, Roy -- 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/-/lM1CfZvI2noJ. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
