I don't think GWT will provide more advanced widgets in the future. The problem is as soon as you start adding more advanced widgets, you will get an endless list of use cases that users want to see on these widgets. So it quickly becomes pretty work intensive but the GWT team at Google isn't large and GWT does not have lots of contributors. So no one who would maintain such widgets.
There is a reason why GXT / SmartGWT / etc. are generally large libraries and are backed by companies. They support lots of use cases and are working full time on improving/maintaining/giving support for these libraries. GWT only provides three basic building blocks: 1.) Basic wrapper widgets for native HTML elements like button, checkbox, table, etc. 2.) A more complicated set of cell based widgets that are helpful for displaying more data faster on IE6-9. If you only support modern browsers it is already questionable if cell based widgets are worth it. 3.) Widgets that deal with common layouts All of these can be styled by providing a custom GWT theme that matches your needs. That way a "naked" GWT app can already be pushed pretty far. -- J. -- 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/d/optout.
