Introducing Sencha

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:31:00 -0400

Great things are coming. Great things are here! On June 14^th, Ext JS LLC rebranded as part of their announced partnership with the principles of the JQTouch and Raphael projects, creating Sencha. The Ext JS library is still one of their major offerings, but they have also created Sencha Labs as a repository of various Open Source Projects under the MIT License (Like JQTouch, Raphael, and Ext Core). Great things were on the way! Having David Kaneda (JQTouch) and Dmitry Baranovskiy (Raphael) join forces with the Ext JS crew is huge, and really plays well in understanding a series of recent blog posts around HTML5, CSS3, and what HTML5 means to developers today. But, it gets better. This morning, Sencha launched their first joint product in public beta, Sencha Touch. Sencha Touch is a cross-platform mobile application framework built to leverage HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. It gives you the same sort of consistent API that you've come to expect from the Ext JS team, with a familiar syntax, great documentation, user forums for support, and many samples included with the download to help you learn. I've had the opportunity to preview this code for a while, and it is outstanding work. There will be some interesting apps to come out of this. The future looks bright for Sencha, and I can't wait to see what they do next. Judging from their post on the rebranding, my prediction are changes to ExtDesigner (possibly to become SenchaDesigner), that would allow a developer to build both Ext JS and Sencha Touch interfaces from the same tool. My guess. (Man, that would be really cool.)

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Introducing Sencha