Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Re: API design rant!

I think we often times forget too that folks are producing these
products for us for free. One can always pay for GWT EXT if they
like.

On Sep 28, 12:38 pm, Brett Thomas <brettptho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not to mention none of those three things have to do with "API Design"...
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> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sep 28, 4:29 pm, Greg Dougherty <dougherty.greg...@mayo.edu> wrote:
> > > Well, look at the JavaDoc for extended by
> > > com.google.gwt.dom.client.Style.Unit (AKA Style.Unit).  I don't think
> > > it's possible to write worse "Documentation" than that, other than
> > > perhaps writing something that is actively and consistently wrong.
>
> > Which doc are you talking about? the "CSS length units" part? (what
> > more should it say? if you don't know what a CSS length unit is, you'd
> > better stop doing web dev; or start learning CSS) the values and
> > valueOf part? (they're not in the code, they come with the "enum"
> > type, just like "extends java.lang.Enum<Style.Unit>")
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> > > I assume people actually test code before it gets added to the
> > > project.  I assume those text cases are a pretty through workout of
> > > all the code's claimed features.  It's an Open Source project, so I
> > > assume there's no commercial reason to keep those test cases hidden.
>
> > You mean these test cases?
>
> >http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/browse/trunk/user/...
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> > > Given that, why are there no *LayoutPanels in Showcase?
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> > Fixed:http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/detail?r=8766
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