Can GWT be made available to users with JavaScript disabled?
My question is about Google Web Toolkit (GWT). I am about to start developing for a project that will be on an Intranet where some users can turn off JavaScript. After seeing what GWT has done for Google Wave, I got very interested in learning and applying it to this new project, but if it's not available to these users, I don't think I can use it. I noticed that the sample apps on the GWT website don't work at all with JavaScript disabled. So, is it possible to use GWT in such a way that content and functionality is still available to users with JavaScript disabled? If not, wouldn't that be serious oversight from Google?
If used, this project will use Spring MVC 3.0 with Hibernate and JPA.
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The whole problem that GWT solves is JavaScript and AJAX programming. If you don't target browsers with enabled, then GWT is not for your project. I would not say that this is oversight. Developing a framework that leaves JavaScript at will will either be a very low common denominator or very frustrating, as many features must be marked as requiring JavaScript.
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Q: Is it possible to completely work with a javascript framework with javascript disabled?
A: No
You could, of course, detect if javascript is enabled and create a completely different site for those users, but why bother? Tell them to enable javascript if they want to use your site. Let him know that 30% of the internet is broken without javascript, and during this time it is very rare to have to turn it off. This is 90 thinking that is;)
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GWT is a great tool for cleaning up bad JS, which is for sure, but it cannot fix bad events and the whole world of other bad JS sites. This way, the police and governors can turn them off, perhaps for some reason. The various flashes look good and are very interactive, but I always find them above a presentation about content and functionality. The ones that both suggest don't seem very reliable.
If you really like GWT, and they turn off JS for the world, are they willing to turn it back on if the incoming JS content gets shredded on their internet gateway?
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