Hi Christophe,

2010/6/18 Christophe Meessen <[email protected]>:
> 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.
>

Good article, nice introduction to Wt! (although you need far less
threads than that article suggests)

> 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.
>

Confirmed on android, I filed a bug.

> 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.
>

We'd have to see if we can solve this. Filed a bug report to follow-up on it.

> 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).
>

Can you send a screenshot?

> 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.
>

We use TinyMCE as rich text editor, which apparently doesn't work well
on android/ipad. We should consider to fallback to a plain textedit
within the toolkit.

> 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).
>

Interesting. I did not realize Wt still behaves so much better than
GWT on modern mobile browsers.

Regards,
Wim.

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