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Ext JS

UI Testing a Sencha App

A few months ago, I wrote a post titled Automating Unit Tests that covered how developers could write unit tests for their business logic and validate their JavaScript syntax. Understanding these concepts is essential when building an enterprise application: bugs…

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Sencha Touch

The Atlantic Wire: Building for iPad on HTML5 and Sencha Touch

The New York Times, Sports Illustrated and now The Atlantic are building powerful, user friendly apps with HTML5 and Sencha frameworks. Why? For leading publishers like these, picking a way to build apps is as much a business choice as…

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Ext JS

Customer Spotlight: Ext4Yii

Ext4Yii is an application framework based on Sencha Ext JS and Yii. In this article, I’ll give you an overview of the Ext4Yii Framework. What is Yii? Yii is a high-performance PHP framework used for developing Web 2.0 applications. It’s…

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HTML5

Announcing the HTML5 is Ready App Contest

Together, we can destroy any lingering doubts that HTML5 is not ready, and prove that 2013 will be the year of the HTML5 app. We got the party started with the announcement of our Fastbook proof of concept app, and…

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HTML5

The Making of Fastbook: An HTML5 Love Story

When we started what became Sencha, we made a bet on the web: a bet that modern application development didn't need anything except the browser, a great set of frameworks and a great set of tools. With those three weapons…

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HTML5

HTML5 Progress Report

It's been almost three years since HTML5 entered the mainstream. January 2010 was "month zero" for the HTML5 boom. We thought that this would be a good time to take a look at how it's been doing. Feature Implementation Progress…

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Sencha Touch

Happy Holidays (and Happy Theming!) from Sencha

To all our developers, partners, customers and friends, from all of us at Sencha we want to wish you Happy Holidays. In the spirit of writing some code for the holidays (and for a little bit of fun), we've created…

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HTML5

Survey Says: Windows Phone 8 Support Strong, HTML5 Important for Multi-Device App Dev

We recently conducted a survey to our developer community about the impact that today's multi-device world has on businesses and application development. Over 1,400 developers, managers, and IT execs responded and shared their insights on a variety of topics, including…

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HTML5 Scorecard

Microsoft Surface vs. the iPad gen 4: The HTML5 Scorecard

This week, we've been putting both the iPad gen 4 and the Microsoft Surface tablet through their paces to see how they stack up as HTML5 platforms. HTML5 is the next generation of web technologies that is increasingly being adopted…