Thanks a lot, I'm still using it since ie6 era. On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 12:41 PM Frank <[email protected]> wrote:
> Very big "Thank you" from me too :-) > > Op zondag 8 december 2024 om 03:01:54 UTC+1 schreef [email protected]: > >> I concur. Without GWT, I would be working in the NPM universe. Yuck! >> On Friday, December 6, 2024 at 5:15:53 PM UTC-6 [email protected] >> wrote: >> >>> Well said. >>> >>> I started with GWT at its birth. >>> >>> Being able to write the frontend in Java is what attracted me, which was >>> a very strong desire of mine at the time. >>> >>> Since then GWT has evolved, >>> probably inspiring development of other frameworks with ability to write >>> the frontend in Java >>> and even though DevMode has started becoming difficult to maintain, >>> unfortunately pointing to its retirement as a discouraged practice, the >>> principles are still sound and the pure Java advantage remains a strong >>> motivation in my view. >>> >>> Thanks GWT & Maintainers! >>> >>> On Friday, 6 December 2024 at 22:22:33 UTC Craig Mitchell wrote: >>> >>> Thank you from me too! >>> >>> And if WASM was integrated into GWT, I'd be even more thankful. 😉 >>> >>> On Friday, 6 December 2024 at 4:49:05 pm UTC+11 Leon Pennings wrote: >>> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> I would like to post this as an appreciation message how glad I am GWT >>> exists, and want to give props to the maintainers. >>> >>> I've first started GWT somewhere around 2007 when I joined a company >>> that was developing an application using GWT. >>> Initially I liked that GWT made it possible to write the frontend in >>> Java. Any integration issues between frontend and backend basically >>> disappeared. >>> Everything was awesome until we had a code review on the generated >>> html/css on the frontend by a frontend specialist. >>> We got destroying on that review because we had a div explosion and the >>> html was non-functional, so not a good scenario for screenreaders (for >>> blind people). >>> So we hired that same specialist to setup the html structure with >>> accompanying css for the frontend. We then built GWT components to generate >>> that exact same structure, and used his css. >>> That turned out to be a very practical marriage. >>> The integration between ui and backend was still 100% java, we had >>> compile time validation in the IDE and in the build, and we were perfectly >>> in line with UI specs with a very functional html structure. Plus we could >>> make components do whatever we want. >>> >>> At one point we've made a network drawing tool with html5Canvas, all >>> fully developed with GWT. We had persons and entities draw themselves on a >>> canvas. And we've made animated dashboard widgets that way too. Fun part >>> was that the business could copy paste the widgets into their reports, as >>> it were images. >>> >>> Anyway I've been working this way ever since, with resident (or hired) >>> html specialists and designers designing the frontend structure, which we >>> would then develop to be able to generate the same from GWT. So far I know >>> of no other framework that provides this functionality. And if there is, I >>> doubt integration with Java is this simple. >>> Simplicity is a good way to achieve stability & predictability - so I'm >>> a happy person! >>> >>> Thanks GWT & Maintainers! >>> >>> Rg, >>> >>> Leon.. >>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GWT Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit/4c7b8bb7-b1cf-4ac7-9fca-9eb0d6d482ean%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit/4c7b8bb7-b1cf-4ac7-9fca-9eb0d6d482ean%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit/CA%2BkiFse_aJakS%3DQpMFM%3DK%3Dak3Osta%2BJU5yKBr3i9L5Rum087GA%40mail.gmail.com.
