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It is time to move toward a future-friendly web. Our current device landscape is a plethora of desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablets, feature phones, smartphones, and more, but this is just the beginning. The rapid pace of technological change is accelerating, and our current processes, standards, and infrastructure are quickly reaching their breaking points. How can [...]
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Sencha Animator 1.2! This new update brings improvements and tweaks across the board based in part on the valuable feedback from our user forums.
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Let’s take a look at what’s new in this latest release.
New interactivity options
To help you create an even richer experience for [...]
jQuery 1.7.2 will be arriving soon! To make sure that we’ve fixed the bugs voted “Most Likely to Annoy” without introducing any new bugs, we need your help in testing this release candidate. You can get the code from the jQuery CDN:
http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2rc1.js
It will only take a few minutes to drop in this latest file and [...]
Every website needs an audience. And every audience needs a goal. Advocating for end-user needs is the very foundation of the user experience disciplines. We make websites for real people. Those real people are able to do real things. But how do we get to really know our audience and find out what these mystery [...]
Sencha improved performance with Ext JS 4.1, but when it comes to optimal performance of Ext JS-based applications, that’s only part of the battle. The rest comes from optimizing applications for performance, which often includes making a few changes so your code can take advantage of Ext JS enhancements.
We’ll tell you how to do [...]
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YUI Theater — Scott Schiller: “Web Audio: HTML5 + Flash (in a tree)” (26 min.)
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At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer and SoundManager developer Scott Schiller (@schill) uncovered HTML5 audio’s dark and dirty secrets, and explained why he thinks both HTML5 audio and Flash audio have their place. Then he wowed the audience with a couple of spectacular live demos that you won’t want [...]
Today, we’re happy to announce the release candidate of Sencha Touch 2 as well as our native packaging for Windows and Mac.
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Six full-featured example apps
To provide some inspiration, we’re shipping six combination examples written by the Sencha Touch core team. Each uses best practices to help you get [...]
Yeti update
Reid has freed up some time for Yeti development recently, and there are some worthwhile updates to broadcast in the world of automated JavaScript testing. There have been the standard issue bug fixes and enhancements, of course, but during the hour, we’ll talk about some of the more important changes, including:
the new iframeless [...]
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The Vendor Prefix Predicament: ALA’s Eric Meyer Interviews Tantek Çelik
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During a public meeting of the W3C CSS Working Group, Mozilla web standards lead Tantek Çelik precipitated a crisis in Web Standards Land when he complained about developers who misunderstand and abuse vendor prefixes by only supporting WebKit’s, thereby creating a browser monoculture. Tantek’s proposed solution—having Mozilla pretend to be WebKit—inflamed many in the standards [...]
Sencha Designer 2 beta is the latest version of our visual drag-and-drop tool for building JavaScript-based applications. Designer 2 supports both the Ext JS and Touch frameworks, so you can use the tool to build applications for either desktop or mobile operating systems. For a more in-depth look at Sencha Designer 2, please see our [...]