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GWT 1.5 Includes Decent-Looking CSS Themes

A Quick Look at the New GWT Themes
By Dietrich Kappe
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June 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT
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One of the welcome developments in GWT 1.5 was the inclusion of some decent looking CSS themes -- standard. chrome and dark.

How can you use them in your GWT app? Just include one of the following lines in your apps .xml file:

 
<inherits name="com.google.gwt.user.theme.standard.Standard"/>
<inherits name="com.google.gwt.user.theme.chrome.Chrome"/>
<inherits name="com.google.gwt.user.theme.dark.Dark"/>
 

You can see them in action in the ShowCase application. For those of you without the patience to kick start the app, here are some screenshots of the new themes:

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Dietrich Kappe is a co-founder and the CTO of Pathfinder Development, a firm that combines User Experience Design and Agile to speed software product development. He published one of the first 100 public websites and launched one of the first Java Servlet-based web applications. He has been a software engineer for two decades, a frequent open source contributor, and has developed applications for the Media, Financial Services, Insurance and Healthcare industries.

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