Hi,
Well, I guess you tend to focus too much on the internet side of
things - which I understand since I am talking to Google :-). Maybe we
should all be focusing on Android and iPhone since those browsers will
certainly have a huge impact on browser usage on the internet.
But in enterprise environments, which is also big if you look at it on
a worldwide scale, the demographics are more biased towards IE7 right
now. I would have liked it differently but things move more slowely in
corporates due to the cost and risks of always upgrading to the latest
fab.
As for providing a patch myself, well I kinda have one in my
environment but it has an impact on the build time since I had to
declare a new variable that detects if ie6 is actually ie7. Which
basically doubles the number of permutations :-(.
I decided to do it this way since I could implement this change in our
own application without the need to patch GWT. Ideally I guess the IE6
impl classes should fall back to the default implementation when the
browser is IE7. That should not be hard to implement... if only I had
access to the svn sourcetree at work (corporate policy!).
David