GWT contribs, I must say I am a bit disappointed with the support for IE7 in GWT 1.7.0. In an enterprise environment IE7 is used a lot more than IE8, but GWT still treats it as ie6 and ie8 gets first class support.
Take a look at these 2 issues: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=3589 http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=3588 Both were marked for Milestone 1_6_1 but do not seem to be fixed in this release. The IE6 workarounds really have a huge impact on IE7: big memory leaks when using ImageBundles or very bad performance when you use a lot of popup panels in an SSL environment. I hacked GWT 1.5 a bit to disable these 2 tricks on IE7 and it makes a huge difference. Will these bugs be fixed in GWT 2.0 or do I have to wait until IE8 or something else becomes mainstream in enterprise environments (in 3 years or so ?) David On Jul 14, 3:01 am, Bruce Johnson <br...@google.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > GWT 1.7 is a minor update that adds better support for Internet Explorer 8, > Firefox 3.5, and Safari 4. Each of these new browser versions introduced at > least one change that negatively impacted compiled GWT modules, so we > recommend that you do update to GWT 1.7 and recompile your existing > applications to ensure that they work with the latest versions of browsers. > No source code changes on your part should be required. > > Normally, a minor update such as this would have been named 1.6.5 (the > previous latest version of GWT was 1.6.4), but we did add the value "ie8" to > the "user.agent" deferred binding property, which could impact projects > using custom deferred binding rules that are sensitive to that property. > Thus, we went with GWT 1.7 rather than GWT 1.6.5, to indicate that you may > need to pay attention to that change. Details are in the release notes. > > In every other respect, this is just a bugfix release, so in the vast > majority of cases, the update-recompile process should be nearly effortless. > > Download > here:http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list?can=1&q=GW... > > Cheers, > Bruce, on behalf of your friendly GWT Team --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
