One of the biggest challenges for web apps has been that they didn’t look and feel like native apps. Web apps have historically had poor offline capabilities, performance limitations, and almost no access to internal or external hardware. These limitations…

I’m not quite ready to turn the page on 2016, but it’s that time of year when I start thinking about what’s in store for 2017. When it comes to web technology, I’ve been doing pretty well with my predictions…

This year was packed full of announcements for our latest frameworks and tools. We appreciate all of the feedback you shared to help make those releases great successes. As the end of 2015 approaches, we’ve put together a collection of…

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. That’s why we created this infographic to highlight some of the key findings from a recent survey that was conducted by Forrester and commissioned by Sencha. At a high level, the…

At Sencha, we believe applications should be designed with the ability to scale in a cost-effective manner. Scaling for HTML5 apps comes in three major forms. Easily grow the codebase of a project as you add application features, functionality and…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock or on another planet, you have undoubtedly heard of HTML5 and how it has simply revolutionized web application development. Over the past four years, it seems like just about every tech conference had…

In our recent webinar, Best Practices for Building HTML5 Applications, we gathered a panel of HTML5 and JavaScript experts from around the industry to discuss their thoughts on a variety of meaningful topics, including: the best resources for learning HTML5…

JavaScript has enjoyed a long and storied history since its creation in 1995. As a prototype-based scripting language, JavaScript quickly became useful as a mechanism to implement dynamic logic and interactivity on web sites — and combined with the latest…

Android 5.0 ‘Lollipop’ has certainly positioned itself to be one of the more significant updates Google has released, so far, to its mobile platform. With a brand new look via Google’s Material Design and over 5000 new APIs, it’s sure…