[gwt-contrib] Re: IE8 detection in GWT 1.7 clarification needed

2009-07-17 Thread Thomas Broyer
On 16 juil, 17:12, stuckagain david.no...@gmail.com wrote: Joel, Glad to read that I am not totally going nuts. Unfortunately I need to support IE6,7 and 8... so using tables is currently inevitable. Hit F12 in IE8 (or choose Development Tools from the Tools menu); you'll get the ie8

[gwt-contrib] Re: IE8 detection in GWT 1.7 clarification needed

2009-07-17 Thread stuckagain
Well, Alltogether the GWT 1.7 is supposed to have IE8 support, but you have to make sure that you change the doctype to strict mode or you will never actually use it. Is the strict doctype now the default one when you create a new GWT application ? I still have an old GWT Plugin in eclipse - not

[gwt-contrib] Re: Trouble building GWT 2.0 from svn

2009-07-17 Thread mescali...@gmail.com
Freeland Abbott wrote: gwt-dev-*.jar are things that ant should build for you, fairly early (but after the build-tools directory). Is there a reason you're setting the classpath and all those -lib flags to ant? It should just find them, using $GWT_TOOLS. because if I don't set it, it would

[gwt-contrib] Re: Bifurcate GWTCanvas feature set like RichTextArea does it?

2009-07-17 Thread Joel Webber
RichTextArea was indeed designed the way it was for that reason. The difference between the basic and extended formatters in particular were needed for Safari2 support. As for canvas/svg/vml, do you have any particular features in mind? The difference in capability between svg and vml seems to be

[gwt-contrib] Re: GWTCanvas status?

2009-07-17 Thread Joel Webber
Ray's basically right about this -- you can't simulate canvas on vml (extant attempts to do so with limited success notwithstanding). When GWTCanvas was originally designed, SVG performance on some browsers was absolutely atrocious, while Canvas and VML were basically acceptable. So Jaime and I