Hi devs,
We have planned the GWT 1.4 upgrade for the next XWatch milestone at the
end of march. For this, we need to make a decision regarding the web-gwt
dependencies (for the moment, the xwiki gwt dialogs rely on the gwt-tk
library that does not yet have a release for gwt 1.4) so we must choose
from:
- using another library to provide this functionality, particularly the
MyGwt library
pros: nice looks and good API + the possibility of using the library
components in including projects.
cons: code changes required by the clean switch (updating all involved
classes to use library API instead of GWT API), the lack of a maven
repository with all available MyGwt versions (only 0.5.0 rc). As well,
while testing, I experienced a couple of rendering issues (caused,
seemingly by the use of the strict or xhtml DTD).
- using the native gwt modal dialogs introduced in 1.4:
pros: not styled (we totally control the styling process and can build an
uniform look); widgets consistency, at least at this level. A big
advantage is that the web-gwt module will not depend on any other library
anymore.
cons: not styled, the usual GWT API (which can be poor in some
situations); GWT also has some problems caused by the standard mode
interpretation in browsers (caused by the doctype declaration) but in
this situation the code seems to be stable.
What do you think?