Issue 4798 discusses whether this fix should be included at all: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=4798
While it isn't technically "broken", its very easy to make a mistake, so I vote that we fix it. http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/525802/show -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors