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Re:Blogger’s fresh new look by flyosity on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @02:45PM (#2946953)
Is it really done using GWT? Of the web engineer friends I know at Google, most hate GWT and try to avoid using it whenever possible. Most Google products don't use it.
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Re:Blogger’s fresh new look by OWaz on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @02:51PM (#2946979)
Do you know why they dislike GWT?
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Re:Blogger’s fresh new look by flyosity on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @11:25PM (#2948538)
I know a lot of people who hate GWT, and it mostly boils down to GWT "abstracting away" the web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) such that you build web applications with no regard for the web as a medium. You can't really build software for a platform without knowing and understanding the constraints of that platform, and GWT tries to hide this as much as possible which leads to a lot of funky issues like huge memory footprints inside the browser, undocumented hiccups between Java and the JavaScript it generates for you, and a general lack of control over the user experience once it's within the browser.
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