4.9. Getting Elemental, my dear Watson!
GWT 2.5, the latest release at the time of writing, brings with it a new API called Elemental.
Note
Don’t forget to explicitly add the gwt-elemental.jar file to your class-path because it’s not included in the standard gwt-user.jar of GWT.
This API is intended to bind as closely as possible to HTML5 and melt away during compilation (leave no overhead). It comes without a lot of the protection of normal GWT but should give access to modern browser functions as quickly as they and GWT are updated. Let’s take a quick look at it now so you’re at least aware of it.
4.9.1. Examining Elemental
Table 4.1 shows how you’d add a button that reacts to clicks to a simple panel, which is itself added ...
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