attached mail follows:
I managed to upgrade to 4.1.1 today and there is a noticeable
performance improvement. I'm also happy to see the addition of new
components, and Winston's blog about not requiring bindings for every
single tag in a JSP. Great job!
What's next? How about some new components such as:
- Ajax push table data with Comet or however that stuff works so a table
can stay up to date as new events happen on the server
- Toolbar
- Number slider
- Number spinner
- Drag/drop
- Input suggest box
- Context menu (right click)
Also have a web designer come up with some more themes that come bundled
with Woodstock. My apps feel like GlassFish admin console and the rest
of Sun branded web apps until I customize the themes. It would be nice
to have some shiny eye candy themes to choose from.
We have only one real issue with Woodstock. Some of our apps have to
work in browsers that don't have JavaScript enabled, in addition to ones
that do. I had to change the default render for many components to use
the HTML Renderer, and had to not use some components because they just
didn't work using HTML renderer (like calendar). Why can't the
components work like the tree where it uses an HTML renderer and form
posts by default, but if you check the "Client side" checkbox it uses
JavaScript.
The next issue isn't a show stopper. Since NB 6.0 text boxes, buttons,
and other basic HTML form elements draw after the page loads. I know
this is because they are just span tags, and replaced by JavaScript.
I've never [knowingly] seen any other website do this with basic HTML
form elements and really don't like that. I ended up switching to the
HTML renderer to stop it from doing that.
Thanks,
Ryan