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Ray
Ray

Reputation: 4869

Using Google Font API in Google Web Toolkit

Are there any best practices for using Google Web Fonts in a Google Web Toolkit application? My initial inclination is to simply add the css reference directly in my .html file, a la

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Josefin+Sans:light,regular,bold' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

But I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it. Is there any advantage to (or any way to) use ClientBundle here?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1118

Answers (1)

Peter Knego
Peter Knego

Reputation: 80330

Google discourages the direct inclusion of css files on host pages for a mere fact that in this case GWT code has an external (detached) dependence. This only matters if you share a GWT module with other developers - note that this might happen in the future when your project gets refactored by some other people that took over the development. So it's still a good practice to make GWT modules with type-safe external dependencies.

As you know you can simply use one of the recommended ways:

  • Using a CssResource contained within a ClientBundle.
  • Using an inline <ui:style src="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Josefin"> element in a UiBinder template.

Upvotes: 5

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