As you might know, GWT provides a handy and elegant mechanism to manage back and forward buttons (and bookmarking) through the use of the “anchor” part of the URL, that is the part after the # sign. Basically, whatever you put after the # will not trigger a page reload, but can be intercepted by
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Google and Palm: the ideal scenario
It was suggested by Phil kearny (ex Apple employee) that Google should buy Palm… Let’s dream a little bit: Google buys Palm A GWT wrapper is developper for Mojo (Palm’s Javascript SDK). GWT becomes the official SDK for webOS dalvik is ported to webOS. All the apps from the Android marketplace are now available for
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Tim Bray now a Google employee
For those of you not familiar with the Who’s Who of IT, Tim Bray is best known for the central role he played in the initial specification of XML. I should know because I spent countless hours studying it back in 2000. If you really really have to read it too, I urge you to
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Slides from my presentation at confoo.ca
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Is HTML5 Ready Yet?
Just attended Mark Pilgrim’s talk this morning at confoo.ca about HTML5. I’ll spare you the list of novelties and changes… HTML5 actually does two things: solves a lot of the current problems with HTML and AJAX apps that required ugly Javascript hacks work around (like initial focus, empty text, typed form fields, etc.) brings new functionalities much
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Smart GWT 2.1 has just been released.
If you don’t know yet, SmartGWT is a cool GWT tookit made by Sanjiv Jivan (the guy who wrote GWT-ext). It is primarily intended to build SmartClient frontends, but it is also available standalone under LGPL license. SmartGWT is fast becoming a strong alternative to GWT-ext (stuck because of license issues) and Ext-GWT (very buggy
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EricDaugherty.com: Does Write Once Run Anwhere Work?
Eric Daugherty: Realistically, I think tools like GWT are the future. As a Flex developer, I enjoy the ability to quickly and easily create rich applications that will render the same on ever user's machine. But I would prefer that the Flex applications would compile to HTML and JavaScript, so they could be run native
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Google Web Toolkit Blog: GWT 2.0.2 is now available
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Kindle Development Kit to use Java
Amazon has unveiled the details of its development kit for its Kindle e-book reader. The so called “Kindle development kit for active content” (or KDK) will be based on Java 1.4 Personal Basis Profile (JSR 217); custom additional APIs will be available for networking, local storage, specific UI components, etc. (see javadoc). As strongly as
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GWT and JavaScript Date hell
You’d think that in 2010, date processing is something that is easily done in Java (and hence GWT), in a consistent cross-platform way. And you’d be wrong. When I’m talking date processing, I mean simple calendar date (not time) operations, like: get today’s date, add a number of days, compute the number of days between
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