webtoolkit and IE7

[Stefan]

Hello fellow coders.

I am new to this web toolkit, so I don't have that much experience.
Anyway I testet the Hello application in Internet Explore 7, and it
doesn't seem to work. Is there a compatibility issue with this
browser??

[marco...@gmail.com]

I wouldn't call it a compatibility issue. IE7 beta is not supported at
all (no script library will be loaded). You could try hacking it into
the nocache file, using the IE6 library might work.

[Stefan]

Thanks. IE sucks anyway ;-)

[jack.tang]

I have no ie7 in my hands. But i think maybe it is easy to hack this.

You can find UserAgent.gwt.xml in gwt-user.jar. Below is the content.
<!--
-->
<!-- Copyright 2006 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
-->
<!-- Defines the user.agent property and its provider function.
-->
<!--
-->
<!-- This module is typically inherited via com.google.gwt.user.User.
-->
<!--
-->
<module>

<!-- Browser-sensitive code should use the 'user.agent' property -->
<define-property name="user.agent"
values="ie6,moz,oldmoz,safari,opera"/>

<property-provider name="user.agent"><![CDATA[
var ua = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
if (ua.indexOf("opera") != -1) {
return "opera";
}
else if (ua.indexOf("safari") != -1) {
return "safari";
}
else if (ua.indexOf("msie 6.0") != -1) {
return "ie6";
}
else if (ua.indexOf("mozilla") != -1) {
var geckoIdx = ua.indexOf("gecko/");
if (geckoIdx == -1)
return "oldmoz";

var spaceIdx = ua.indexOf(" ", geckoIdx);
if (spaceIdx == -1)
spaceIdx = ua.length;

var version = parseInt(ua.substring(geckoIdx + 6, spaceIdx));
if (version < 20051107) // Firefox1.5's Gecko version
return "oldmoz";
return "moz";
}
return "unknown";
]]></property-provider>

</module>

try to change this line
else if (ua.indexOf("msie 6.0") != -1) {
to
else if(ua.indexOf("msie 6.0") != -1 || ua.indexOf("msie 7.0") !=
-1 )

Hope it helps

[Sentience]

This hack worked for me. I've got the KitchenSink sample running in
Hosted Mode with IE 7.

[3rojka]

Worked for me too thanks a million.