Hi Lucas,
I'm glad someone else has some interest in pushing piccolo2d in that
direction.
You may want to take a look at the source code in the repo there's an
entire branch dedicated to doing pretty much what you're talking
about:
Thanks you for those links to those other tools. They look very promising.
In general I agree that working through GWT is the wrong way to go, since a
'native' javascript can always be wrapped by GWT anyway. I was just hoping
to get a familiar API up and running quickly. Looking at the existing
