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Amazon Silk Web Browser Isn’t Super-Fast

November 22, 2011—One of the major selling points for the Kindle Fire is its Amazon Silk Web browser — a cloud-accelerated browser that turbo boosts page load times with Amazon’s supercomputers. Turns out the speed boosts aren’t really much to boast about. According to benchmarks testings by Sencha, the Kindle Fire’s Amazon Silk browser has virtually “no to low impact from ‘Accelerated Browsing.” They conclude that the Fire “isn’t designed to run HTML5 apps as a primary goal.”

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Adobe Flash Sites Rapidly Converted To HTML5 For iOS users

November 21, 2011—A developer using Sencha Touch reports that translating large existing websites built with Adobe Flash to HTML5 mobile sites accessible to iOS users can now be performed by 1 or 2 people in just three weeks.
Apple Insider→

No Flash? No Problem

November 19, 2011—So what does the future hold for Flash? I imagine Flash eventually being used more as a creative tool than a delivery format. As Adobe continues to put more effort into exporting HTML5-ready assets from Flash Pro, it tells me the swf may be slowly dying for desktop, too. Tools like Adobe Edge and Sencha are quickly hitting the marketplace to provide designers an interface that will create experiences in a similar fashion to working within Flash Pro.
ZDNet→

Sencha.io Is “First” Mobile HTML5 Cloud

November 19, 2011—Using the Sencha.io service and the SDK, application developers write their applications entirely in JavaScript and Sencha.io utilizes cloud services as necessary. In other words, developers can simply write a client-side Sencha Touch application and use the power of the cloud to make their app come alive, or so the theory goes.
Dr. Dobb’s→

Adobe Donating Flex to Open Source Foundation; Continues Fire Sale on Formerly-Core Software

November 19, 2011—The latest generation Web development frameworks, such as Vaadin, GWT-Ext [Smart GWT], Sencha, and so forth, may have solved these browser incompatibility issues, reducing the need for Flex.
InfoQ→

Beyond jQuery: JavaScript Tools For The HTML5 Generation

November 9, 2011—One of the stated goals of HTML5, at least for some groups, is to replace the Flash plug-in, the gold standard for making sprites and letters dance across the screen. This change is slowly coming as the game industry and the presentation industry start to duplicate some of the sophisticated tools available in the Flash universe.
InfoWorld→

Apple’s Steve Jobs Vindicated As Adobe Kills Mobile Flash

November 9, 2011—Sencha’s recent (November) study supports the Blaze.io position, pointing out that Safari on iOS is much faster than before. Its tests showed that iOS 5 is a much better platform for rendering, WebGL, compass directions and much more.
Computerworld→

Sencha Releases Cloud Development Platform

November 3, 2011—Sencha has released a new cloud development platform, Sencha.io, to help developers create mobile Web and desktop applications with one client-centric platform in JavaScript.
SD Times→

Sencha, Subtext, Sociable Labs: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers

October 27, 2011—$15 million—A Series B venture round for Sencha, the Redwood City, CA-based maker of development tools and Web services for builders of HTML5 applications. Jafco Ventures led the round, which was joined by existing investors Sequoia Capital and Radar Partners
Xconomy→

Sencha Launches HTML5 Developer Platform, Leveraging Cloud

October 27, 2011—Sencha, a provider of HTML5 frameworks and tools for desktop and mobile application developers, has introduce Sencha.io, a client-centric cloud technology designed specifically for JavaScript developers. According to Sencha, when used in conjunction with Sencha frameworks, Sencha.io lets a developer focus on building client-side application logic while leveraging cloud services to enhance the application.
SQL Magazine→