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Ext GWT 1.2.3 is out – performance improvements

Tim — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:00:27 +0000

Darrell at Extjs announced a new patch build of Ext GWT – 1.2.3. Besides fixing a bunch of bugs, one notable change is “Significant performance enhancements around layouts.”

I gave a try to the Ext GWT explorer demo and does in fact now feel significantly faster (it seems to be in my experience 1.5x – 2x times improvement in Firefox and Chrome). Those that are still using IE6 (get rid of it already! it’s 2009 after all) will still be out of luck, but who cares

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Livegrid extension for GXT/Ext-GWT in the works

Tim — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:50:56 +0000

There is apparently soon going to be a livegrid implementation for GXT/Ext-GWT, similar to the one that exists for ExtJs, SmartClient/SmartGWT, and ItMill. There is already a demo and all (no source or anything else) – but worth checking out out anyway. And the announcement.

I personally have no idea whether paging is better than live grids for usability – none of the rich UI desktop systems I’ve worked on used paging (10000 or even 100000 rows is not too bad for the user if responsiveness is good and sorting/drilling is organized well), however none of the web apps I’ve developed or used had more than 200 rows per “page”. I think the key is in the UI organization around the grid and visual responsiveness of components…

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Ext-GWT 1.2 is out – drag and drop it all

Tim — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:27:42 +0000

oh, yeah – GXT 1.2 is out – choke full of new goodies (mostly around Drag and Drop), grid data binding, bug fixes etc. Don’t know about you, but it seems to feel a little snappier with this release, at least on the few individual examples I tried…

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Ext-GWT 1.1 is out

Tim — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:10:09 +0000

There is a new version (1.1) of Ext-GWT library available with all kinds of goodies – Grids, Bean Model/Factory,Web Desktop, Slate theme, Live Combo Box. Slick stuff and definitely a great framework that anyone starting in GWT needs to consider!

One thing I wish for is that Ext-GWT was better interoperable with native GWT widgets/layouts. But maybe it’s just wishful thinking on my part, since I also understand the complexity of getting RIA stuff work smoothly across the browsers and various hacks developers put into place to deal with cross browser issues.

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Ext GWT releases preview with grids, portal, webdesktop support

Tim — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:31:38 +0000

A new preview release of Ext GWT (1.1. Alpha 2) is now available for download here and includes a number of long awaited goodies: new grids implementation, portals, webdesktop, new forms etc. For a complete post describing the new features read here.

It seems Darrell has been making quite a bit of progress lately on GXT – good stuff.

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Ext-GWT (GXT) releases preview of new Grid widget

Tim — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:00:00 +0000

Darrell from ExtJs just released a preview of the new Grid component that will be part of Ext-GWT (GXT) v.1.1. Here are the previews of various grid views and an implementation of editable grid. More details on the implementation plans for the Grid component are here

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