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Group Commerce did such a great job styling the Boston.com Deals app. Check out their writeup about what it was like to develop with Sencha Touch on our company blog.
Then check out their HTML5 web app on your Android, BlackBerry, or iOS device. (Or download the native app to your iPhone.)
Royal Bank of Scotland develops HTML5 app for Blackberry Playbook in seven weeks
Earlier this year, research firm Gartner predicted 80% of businesses will support its workforce using tablet devices, such as the Apple iPad, by 2013. According to Deloitte, companies will purchase 10 million tablet devices in 2011, comprising 25% of all tablet sales.
Financial Time’s HTML5 Web App Strategy for Subscriptions
The Wall Street Journal’s Russell Adams on publishers using HTML5:
The FT’s shift toward a Web-app strategy started last year largely because the publisher lacked the resources to create lots of different apps for the many emerging devices and operating systems. But a major benefit of this strategy is it allows publishers to “un-tether ourselves from app stores,” said MB Christie, head of product development for the FT.
Facebook’s Project Spartan: An HTML5 competitor for iOS?
On TechCrunch:
Yes, Facebook is about to launch a mobile platform aimed squarely at working on the iPhone (and iPad). But it won’t be distributed through the App Store as a native application, it will be entirely HTML5-based and work in Safari. Why? Because it’s the one area of the device that Facebook will be able to control (or mostly control).
Ext Designer is now available for pre-order!
Ext Designer is a soon-to-be-released desktop app that will allow developers to prototype their app’s UI in seconds. It exports layouts directly as classes or JSON and has all the functionality of a native desktop app, like file save, screenshots, undo/redo, etc. We’ll be releasing Designer soon for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Reserve your copy today for a 50% discount!
