On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Erik <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Thank you for the hard work that has gone into the site! > > Can we do something to improve the styling of the new site? There are > people who are researching GWT as a candidate tool for development. When > they research whether or not they should consider it, they hear it can be > challenging to style. What do you think happens when those GWT developers > come to this site and the styling is less than they'd expect? > > I hate to sound like a critic. I'm just trying to counter myths regarding > GWT, with styling being on the top of the list, and am now concerned how > this will play out in current circles debating GWT if this site isn't > improved quickly. > As it has be said, GWT site has been moved from google so as the community can contribute easily to change it. The goal of this movement is that If you have nice styling or any other suggestion, just commit a patch to the project review system, and I'm pretty sure it will be included after some discussion. I agree that the styling can be improved, but this is a good start point. It was more important to handle all content of the old site than focusing on visual things. > Here are some styling examples with Firefox 22.0 (the latest) on Windows > 7. > > 1. In this line, text is very hard to read, like a bad image. It is > tiny. And, what is a beta version, exactly? The site? The current > version of GWT? All versions of GWT? I'm reporting. How do I change this > line? > > > <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/cvLBXp8ar_-w0pq0aLDmXcK6ENFQlIgvVCphkhXJaXLpoZhJpuqaR_z1zX4yt59Tzg=s1600> > > 2. Of course, when evaluating GWT, people want to know Who is using > GWT<http://www.gwtproject.org/whos_using_gwt.html>. > Isn't this text is a little close to the image? > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/D3DWifoV9IbeGapUf-W20rWQr8aMpqFE1czQJLg48uFMpk7HeyERIKMZfkoR6mAdAg=s1600> > > Just send a patch to the review system improving the wording and style. > > As someone noted, these pages were not built with GWT. Would someone > evaluating who never used GWT before know that? Or does this reinforce > what they are hearing from the critics. > That's not true. The site has been created using gwt (just take a look to the network traffic and you can see it downloads a gwt permuttion). It uses a server-side deployed on GAE which have pages stored in datastore, and the client uses some gwt code (in fact gwt-query) to handle the menu, history, and request pages via ajax. For crawlers, the site behaves like all the content were static html files. > > If one purpose of this site is to help GWT grow, then can we put marketing > CSS love in it? Is there anything any of us can do to help improve this > site? I'd love to help if I can. Read this page to checkout the project and contribute, if you need any help, ask for it in the gwt-contributors list. http://www.gwtproject.org/makinggwtbetter.html#webpage > > > Thanks for getting the site up and helping GWT to be more successful! > > > On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 4:57:49 PM UTC-4, Daniel Kurka wrote: >> >> Today we finally flipped the switch and moved all the GWT content from >> developers.google.com to gwtproject.org. The old homepage will redirect >> to gwtproject.org so there should be no broken links. However if you >> encounter any missing content or broken links please file a >> bug<https://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/entry> >> . >> >> Why did we do this? >> >> GWT is now an open source project and we wanted to enable people to >> contribute to the website and documentation as well. Since >> developers.google.com can only be updated by Google employees we needed >> another home. >> >> - Daniel, on behalf of the GWT team > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
