Hello, I'm considering writing a web service application and I compared WT with GWT. I recently discovered the existence of WT by reading a tutorial article in the french Linux journal n° 127 p78 - 84.
I tried the wt examples on my iPad and Android HTC desire phone. Here is a modest feedback contribution. Touch screen driven browser behave differently from mouse driven browsers. I saw two problems. In the git explorer example, when displaying the INSTALL content, the window scroll bar doesn't show up. So it is not possible to read text not displayed in the window frame. Tilting the screen from horizontal to vertical allows to see more of the hidden text. Multi line editable text fields are however scrollable without problem. The problem appears on the iPad and the Android browser. The second problem is that the split window bars can't be dragged. They can be selected on the Android, but probably only as an image, and can't be dragged. Another problem I saw with the treeview example but only on the iPad is that the text of the pies charts is displayed in a wrong location in vertical and horizontal mirroed orientation (upside down). A last problem to report is that the rich text editor is not working on iPad and Android. The text insertion caret doesn't show up and the keyboard as well. The comparison of GWT and WT is clearly in favor of WT which appears 2x faster ! GWT menus borders are not properly rendered and everything seems sluggish. Even text edition. The GWT rich text editor doesn't work too on the iPad and Android. The conclusion is that user developing web apps targeting touch screen browsers must avoid some widgets (split panes, rich text) and some usage patterns (i.e. scrollable read only text). -- Bien cordialement, Ch. Meessen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ witty-interest mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/witty-interest
