That's all basically correct. The VerticalPanel alignment methods are a little funky to reimplement in FlowPanel -- someone would have to sit down and actually try all the cases to make sure they work (I'm fairly sure text-alignment: will do it, but I'd need to confirm).
Le 3 juin 2010 12:11, Ray Ryan <rj...@google.com> a écrit : > So that'd mean deprecating DockPanel, SplitPanel, TabPanel and > VerticalPanel. Any others? We shouldn't deprecate RootPanel, right? > > The deprecation language will probably need to point out that the new > panels aren't just drop in replacements — that they require standards mode, > and are most easily used under a RootLayoutPanel. Is that accurate? Anything > else to say? > > For VerticalPanel, we'd tell them to use FlowPanel instead, but what could > we tell them about its alignment methods? Is there generic advice to offer > for doing that kind of thing in a FlowPanel? > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Joel Webber <j...@google.com> wrote: > >> Well... HorizontalPanel is still useful in some instances, and we have no >> way of providing the same behavior in a general way because CSS layout is a >> bloody mess. I'd be ok with deprecating the others (StackPanel, TabPanel, >> VerticalPanel, and DockPanel) though. >> >> Le 26 mai 2010 11:36, Ray Ryan <rj...@google.com> a écrit : >> >>> Joel, can we @Deprecate all the redundant non-flow panels yet? It's >>> getting harder and harder for people to discover the right thing to do. >>> >>> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Joel Webber <j...@google.com> wrote: >>> >>>> The FlowPanel (just a simple <div> that leaves its children's styles >>>> unmodified) already allows you to do this. For the vertical case, this >>>> tends >>>> to happen naturally with block-level children. >>>> >>>> The horizontal case is trickier, however. Using float:left captures >>>> some, but definitely not all cases (vertical alignment is quite hard). >>>> inline-block isn't supported on all browsers (and has behavior quirks even >>>> on modern browsers). Basically, there's no simple answer that actually >>>> works >>>> across browsers, so we haven't yet tried to offer a widget that does this >>>> automatically. Your best bet is to actually just use a FlowPanel and style >>>> its children using the kinds of tricks described in the linked Wikipedia >>>> article. Maybe one day we'll get hbox/vbox/flexbox across browsers, but >>>> until then horizontal alignment is extremely difficult to generalize. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> joel. >>>> >>>> Le 25 mai 2010 06:39, Ivo <ivom...@gmail.com> a écrit : >>>> >>>> The next GWT Developments, will have alternatives to the VerticalPanel >>>>> and HorizontalPanel, using no table tags?? >>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableless_web_design >>>>> >>>>> For instance, the HorizontalPanel could have a alternative named >>>>> HorizontalFlowPanel, that instead of generate this code: >>>>> >>>>> <table> >>>>> <tr> >>>>> <td> >>>>> cell1 >>>>> </td> >>>>> <td> >>>>> cell2 >>>>> </td> >>>>> </tr> >>>>> </table> >>>>> >>>>> Generate that: >>>>> >>>>> <div style="float:left"> >>>>> cell1 >>>>> </div> >>>>> <div style="float:left"> >>>>> cell2 >>>>> </div> >>>>> >>>>> This alternative is lighter for the browser, and for the developer >>>>> when we needs to know what code are GWT generating. You have some >>>>> development in this area? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors >>> >> >> -- >> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors >> > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors > -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
