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What’s Next for Mobile Now That Adaptive Design Has Failed?

May 20, 2012—Rather than adapting a web page down to the tablet form factor and requiring users to scroll vertically, publishers should embrace swiping. Users are not perturbed at all to see a full page interstitial ad stuck into the mix while paging through content, making the tablet extremely monetizable. Swiping is very difficult to code for mobile web. Fortunately, there are turnkey solutions such as Pressly and OnSwipe that make it easy for simple sites to create swipeable tablet editions. Extensions to jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch make it easy for programmers to add swiping features to their mobile HTML.

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Sencha Architect: Visual HTML5, Sort Of

May 16, 2012—Sencha describes Sencha Architect 2, the latest incarnation of its visual Web development tool, as “a massive upgrade to Ext Designer,” the previous version. The name change from Designer to Architect reflects the product’s new focus. Instead of a tool for building Web UIs, Sencha says the new version is suitable for creating complete Web applications, both for UI designers and back-end developers.
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PlayBook OS 2.0 Aces Sencha HTML5 Development Scorecard

May 14, 2012—Sencha put the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 through their various tests for HTML5 and found that it had improved upon an already solid HTML5 platform. In their previous scorecard they said that the PlayBook OS 1.0 was superior to Android 3.0’s browser overall and an excellent HTML5 platform. Their follow up scorecard for PlayBook OS 2.0 goes even further to call it a Very Fine HTML5 browser…
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Mobile Expert Interview Series: Sencha’s Michael Mullany

May 8, 2012—I asked Sencha’s CEO Michael Mullany for his prediction on what percentage of enterprise mobility apps will be based on HTML5 by 2014. He answered, “50% will be HTML5, 20% native and 30% will be hybrid HTML5 apps. I read that as 80% of enterprise mobility applications will be using some form of HTML5 by 2014. Wow!
Mobile Enterprise Strategies→

RIM Plays Devs for Dollars

May 3, 2012—Research In Motion has big plans for its next-generation platform, BlackBerry 10, expected for release later this year. However, in order to compete with market leaders iOS and Android, the company will need strong support from the mobile application development community… The BlackBerry 10 platform “offers quite a bit of promise” for developers creating HTML5 apps, Aditya Bansod, senior director of product management at Sencha, told TechNewsWorld. “We’ve done a lot of work on the platform, especially the browser, which is first-class.”
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How To: Take Advantage of HTML5 Trends and Tools

April 26, 2012—Another HTML5 tool emerges from Sencha’s lineup. The innovator has now enabled mobile and desktop application developers to collaborate around the creation of web apps that will unleash full HTML5 capabilities via Sencha Architect 2. Together with Sencha Touch 2 and Ext JS 4, this new tool boasts a visual canvass and editing facility that help maximizes developer productivity, drives best practices in application design patterns, facilitates collaboration within the group and ensures the generation of high-quality code.
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Introduction to Mobile HTML5

April 25, 2012—Aditya Bansod, Senior Director of Product Management at Sencha, offers an introduction to HTML5 application development for mobile environments.
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Sencha Architect 2: A WYSIWYG IDE for Building Desktop and Mobile HTML5 Apps

April 17, 2012—Sencha Architect 2 builds on the company’s HTML5 layout tool, Ext Designer, expanding its capabilities to offer a comprehensive application design environment for building desktop and mobile Web applications. Used in conjunction with Sencha Touch 2 and Ext JS 4, Sencha Architect 2 aims to increase developer productivity and drive best practices in application design patterns. InfoQ had a short Q&A with Aditya Bansod, senior director of product management at Sencha abut their new product.

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Sencha Architect 2: The New Name for HTML5 UI Tool Ext Designer

April 17, 2012—Developer tool and software company Sencha Inc. on Tuesday announced a new brand in HTML5 UI design and coding called Sencha Architect 2. The software is aimed at Web designers and users who want to create cross-platform HTML5 apps in a visual, drag and drop environment.
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Sencha Architect Targets Amateur Designers Interested in HTML5

April 17, 2012—HTML5 framework provider Sencha has introduced Sencha Architect 2, the evolution of its drag-and-drop Ext Designer application. Sencha Architect 2 builds upon Ext Designer by expanding the program’s support for building desktop and mobile Web applications.
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