A Fresh Approach to JavaScript Documentation—The New Ext JS 4 Documentation Center
Since the launch of Ext JS 4 we’ve been hard at work improving all aspects of helping you learn the framework. We’ve launched a new learning center, improved the way we track bugs and respond to issues on the forums and more. You’ve given us a tremendous amount of support as well as suggestions on how to improve via the active docs app threads on the forums. We’ve been listening and today I’d like to share a few of the improvements we’ve made with you, as well as some of what we’re working on.
Understanding Hardware Acceleration on Mobile Browsers
Our own WebKit genius, Ariya Hidayat, is back to explain what happens behind the scenes with mobile browsers, vector graphics, and shed light on interactions with the GPU.
EventRecorder for Android Web Applications
After we came up with RemoteJS, we started thinking about how we could go one step further regarding the testing of Android web applications based on Sencha Touch. Introducing EventRecorder for Android mobile web apps.
Headless Testing for Continuous Integration with Git and Jasmine
Our WebKit Team lead, Ariya Hidayat, walks you through creating a Continuous Integration setup that will run on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Remote JavaScript Debugging on Android
Developers often run into debugging hurdles when testing web pages for Android mobile devices. And, while the Android Developers Guide provides a solution, it’s a bit cumbersome and complex. In this article, our WebKit team provides a better solution called RemoteJS.
Make A JavaScript Formatter with V8 and jsbeautifier
Ariya Hidayat explains how to use a handy online tool called JSBeautifier which automatically reformats and reindents your JavaScript code (or JSON snippets) based on spacing, packing, and other configureable options.
JavaScript Engines: How to Compile Them
Take a look at three open-source JavaScript engines used in popular web browsers and learn how to compile them for use outside the browser.
A Side-By-Side Diff Viewer Built With Ext JS
Using standard Ext components and a couple of custom ones, you can create a great looking diff viewer for the web that requires no backend.
Ext JS is Migrating to Git
With many of our developers moving to Git for smaller internal projects, and with Ext JS 3.1.1 just released, we decided to take the opportunity to move development of Ext to Git.
HTML5, Video, Canvas, and Ext JS
HTML5 is coming. All of us at Ext are excited to embrace the new standard as it gains acceptance. This post will examine two notable HTML5 developments – Video and Canvas. The video tag allows for native video rendering, removing the current need for third-party plugins like Flash. Likewise, the canvas tag has a clean yet very powerful API allowing you to draw complex graphics at the pixel level.