Re: Use Elemental to optionally generate HTML on the server?

2012-10-10 Thread Roy
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. Thanks for the pointer to ElementBuilder. That seems promising but has some drawbacks - it won't

Re: Use Elemental to optionally generate HTML on the server?

2012-10-10 Thread Andrea Boscolo
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

Re: Use Elemental to optionally generate HTML on the server?

2012-10-10 Thread Gal Dolber
I'm also very much interested in this. You can get Elemental to run on pure Java, but it will take a lot of work. Before Elemental came out I did a very similar DOM abstraction and wrote a pure Java implementation for it as well, to get the tests running. Implementing a java version of Elemental

Use Elemental to optionally generate HTML on the server?

2012-10-09 Thread Roy
I have a large GWT app which unfortunately is slow in some old browsers I need to support (IE7). A major part of the slowness is my architecture - I am using GWT-RPC to download model objects from the server and then building a large HTML table in the browser using GWT Widgets. The table is

Re: Use Elemental to optionally generate HTML on the server?

2012-10-09 Thread Andrea Boscolo
I'd give CellTable/DataGrid a try, if your model is suitable for it and your cells aren't so 'fancy'. You can use async requests, paging and lightweight widgets (cell widgets); should be more than enough to speed up fetching/rendering time. There is also the ElementBuilder API that makes easy