Out with Flextable and in with FlowPanel for the designer

Thanks to a good friend and awesome web designer Wylie I have been cleaning up my GWT to make it more designer friendly. At first I was thinking maybe all this generated HTML is a really bad idea but I am starting to come around that it is much cleaner if the design is limited to just CSS changes. Wylie is great about pointing out poorly generated code:

When I was originally trying to lay things out I was using GWT layouts that where creating lots of tables. FlowPanel to the rescue that is now using div tags. One of the glaring missing layout types in GWT are list type. Since HTML supports lists it is strange that GWT does not support them natively. I created a wrapper for a list in about 15 minutes. For my current project I am glad I picked GWT and for a full blown web app still think it is better than the alternatives. The big test will be how easy it integrates into the backend.