On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:13:36 PM UTC+2, Shaun Tarves wrote: > > There is no doubt that what GWT does, it's really good at. However, some > things that I've found GWT really isn't good at: > > 1) Producing clean HTML > > The structure of GWT "page views," especially with GWT widgets, is really > poor. The DOM gets bloated with lots of extra elements that are used for > focus and positioning. There are ways around this, but I feel like I'm > constantly fighting with GWT to generate HTML structure on my terms. > > For example, some of the most lauded constructs in GWT are the Cell-based > widgets (CellTable, and CellList, specifically). With CellLists, you are > stuck with divs. There's no way around it. So that means if you want to > make a good data model-backed list and render it as a UL with LIs, you're > SOL. >
It's a false problem. GWT widgets are generally good as far as accessibility is concerned, and let's put it clearly the only reason on having a "semantic" DOM tree is for a11y. 2) The history mechanism is really powerful, but it's important to get your > URL structure correct from the start. The built-in history token parser is > a little too rigid in that it forces the first part of your URLs to be of > the form xxxx:yyy and then anything you want after that. When you dive > deeper into GWT, you'll understand the limitations of the > PlaceHistoryMapper and why you might want to avoid the tokenizers and write > your own parser. > On the plus side: it's pluggable. (it wasn't at first, you had to re-implement the whole PlaceHistoryHander+PlaceHistoryMapper) > 3) The GWT CSS compiler doesn't understand any CSS3 attributes. Also, > browser-specific attributes (such as the * hack for IE) throw warnings on > compiling. It's not really GWT's fault (it's a Java compiler issue), but be > aware nonetheless. > You don't need browser-specific hacks, simply use "@if user.agent ie6 ie8". The real issue is with selectors. FYI, gradients can now be used without literal() in 2.5.0-rc2: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=5771 -- 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/-/A-GepWmKMf0J. 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.
