Tell us what you like about the new in GWT-2.1 and what else would you like to see in GWT?



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    I liked the ability to use logging and secure html, as well as the fact that we discovered many methods for use (which were previously internal and had to write props). But do not like that almost all Warning: deprecation.

    I would like to see:

    1. Text Metrics (Font Metrics)
    2. Advanced tabbed pane - so that you can have tabi at least from below, even from above, even from the side.
    3. Ability to make menu item inactive.
    4. The ability to apply attributes containing "-".
    • Font Metrics has long been time to do. But at the moment some GWT-based libraries propose to count metrics, but there it is done through a wild workaround, when an invisible element with text is added to the root panel, and then they consider the length of this element — Nicolas Chabanovsky ♦

    I liked the fact that they included in the box delivery the infrastructure for building the application according to the MVP approach. For the current project, due to historical reasons, you have to use a third-party solution. In the future, when starting new projects I will look only at boxed solutions. I also liked RequestFactory, but again, only by description and by helloworld-research. In practice, it was not yet possible to try