Thank you all for your replies, And In general I tend to agree that you should not promote tight coupling between your app functionality and the presentation styles. On the other hand, Ryan Shillington, JQuery is javascript, but as you know most Great Jscript libraries jave wrappers for GWT. That is the case with jquery, http://code.google.com/p/gwt-jquery/. So yes, you can use JQuery from withing GWT.
Another thing is, say, for example that in page that you are rendered you have a list of row and each of these rows has a cless ODD or EVEN. Say that you want to hide away all ODD rows. Why would it be best to have your GWT code traverse every single row in the set an based on your index % 2 decide weather or not collapse it, than have a CSS selector in gwt-jquery kill away all ODD rows? Much less code! I would normally live very well wich such a depencency, provided that if would be making my code use a CSS resource getter to find out the ODD classname. My kindest regards, Nuno. On Saturday, August 4, 2012 11:33:09 PM UTC+2, Joseph Lust wrote: > > To start with CSSResource is awesome and I highly recommend using it. It > forces you to program *better*. Should you really be trying to pull > elements out of the page depending on their CSS names? Seems like a bad day > if you ever want to rebrand or dress up your UI. If CSS is the graphical > dressing of the site, separate those concerns from the functional aspects. > Further, using those CSSResource interfaces keeps you from ever using > string literals in your Java code or UiBinders, which is a best practice. > > Additionally, with UI Automation tests our testers are tempted to use ugly > selectors based on class names. This is a poor idea because then a class > name changes a year later and 400 tests fail, even though functionally the > site works just as well as before. > > The real question here is what you want to do with your CSS. If you want > to apply rules the site over, then don't use <ui:style>, but rather a > CSSResource interface. This way that interface can be used by many widgets' > UiBinders. However bespoke, small CSS tweaks do fit nicely into <ui:style> > and you can always move them out to a CSSResource interface in the future > if you want to use them multiple places. Note, from my experience you > cannot well handle CSS inheritance/overriding between widgets with > <ui:style>, but you can with standalone CSSResource interfaces. > > > Sincerely, > Joseph > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/WyVpjyTcYf8J. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
