GWT 2.3.0 and IE 9

[Frank]

Are their any plans to upgrade GWT-Graphics to be compliant with
GWT-2.3.0 and use SVG for IE 9 ?

Currently when compiling using GWT-2.3.0 some warnings appear and it
seems to me that it is falling back to ie-8 as agent. This causes the
VML renderer to be used while IE 9 has SVG support (which I think is a
lot faster than VML).

Frank

[Henri Kerola]

Hi,

Yes, I have planned that as the first thing when I find time for this project, is to try test it with IE9 & SVG and if the combination works, release a new version of GWT Graphics with SVG support for IE9.

Cheers,

-Henri 

[Frank]

Great :-)

We make heavy use of this great library in 2 projects and it would be
great if performance in IE9 was upped bigtime by switching to SVG.

Frank

[tomas.vala]

Hi,

I am curious - have you managed to make GWTGraphics working with
Vaadin 6.6 / GWT 2.3.0 in IE-VML mode at all?

In my environment this seems to be broken as there is blank area
rendered in slot where graphics is expected to be. Other browsers
using SVG plugin works as expected. Tested on IE9 native mode and IE9
compatibility mode with IE8. IE9 set to IE7 compatible mode works with
sample application, but not my app.

Saying that, I remember not experiencing this issue a while ago on
pre-6.6 Vaadin with GWT 2.1.0 (IIRC) and IE8. Just trying to figure
out whether it's a global problem or something wrong with my
environment.

Thanks,
Tomas

[tomas.vala]

Hi,

I am curious - have you managed to make GWTGraphics working with
Vaadin 6.6 / GWT 2.3.0 in IE-VML mode at all?

In my environment this seems to be broken as there is blank area
rendered in slot where graphics is expected to be. Other browsers
using SVG plugin works as expected. Tested on IE9 native mode and IE9
compatibility mode with IE8.

Saying that, I remember not experiencing this issue a while ago on
pre-6.6 Vaadin with GWT 2.1.0 (IIRC) and IE8. Just trying to figure
out whether it's a global problem or something wrong with my

environments.

Thanks,
Tomas

[Henri Kerola]

Hi,

Project's repository contains a version that has enabled SVG support for IE9. I should test it and release a new version of the library.

Actually, you can enable SVG rendering in IE9 with the current version of GWT Graphics by adding the lines in the following changeset into your .gwt.xml file:

http://code.google.com/p/gwt-graphics/source/detail?r=81d5be744bc8ca2c4ffb2cf97745ca57861aae23

-Henri