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Is the Google Web Toolkit Right For You?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sure-why-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The recently released Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a comprehensive set of APIs and tools that lets you create dynamic Web applications almost entirely in Java code. However, GWT is something of an all-or-nothing approach, targeted at a relatively small niche in Web application development market. This article shows you what GWT can do and will help you decide if it's the best tool to use for your web development."

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  1. Accessibility? by metamatic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Also, what's the state of the art in screen readers? Do they have sufficient JavaScript support? (*)

    If not, using GWT for a corporate web site is just a lawsuit waiting to happen.

    (*) This is not an idle question, I'm sincerely interested in real answers and pointers to software.

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