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Alex Russell wrote a piece about the CSS vendor prefix debate, and our CEO Michael Mullany responded with a piece of his own. You should head over to Alex’s blog to read what is now an epic comment thread, but we also felt we should share it here with everyone.
Click through to read about Sencha’s stance on this issue, and why we don’t see a WebKit-only future.
Originally posted by Michael Mullany at Infrequently.org, February 17, 2012 at 4:21 pm:
Since both sides of this debate make claims to “what developers think/act”, we thought we’d lay out the Sencha opinion on -webkit prefixed effects: why we use them, and why we don’t want other vendors squatting on them. And incidentally, we’re fans of CSS as a technology.
But first a little background.
Nice Sencha mention in this recent eWeek deck on the major transition to HTML5 happening right now.
“We estimate that using Sencha products has saved us at least 25% in development time. Plus, the professional documentation and strong, passionate community have helped us to get up to speed quickly.”
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.
The latest edition of Sencha News features six full-length articles, tailored for web designers, Sencha developers, and beginning web app developers. Read about architecting your Ext JS 4 app, replacing Flash with CSS3 Animations, and get a sneak peek of Ext GWT 3.
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Playboy’s HTML5 Web App for Magazine Subscriptions
By launching a web app and selling it itself, Playboy can ignore the restrictions that Apple sets for App Store content. Moreover, it avoids paying Apple 30 percent of subscription revenues and is able to create a relationship with its subscribers directly, which means that it gets an automatic access to customer details.
Aditya Bansod has the scoop on the HP TouchPad for HTML5 Developers in our latest scorecard series. The TouchPad is the first device to ship HP/Palm’s webOS 3, and the first tablet from HP. Let’s see how they do:
“The TouchPad looks quite promising, but still seems rough around the edges.”
Check the rest in our HTML5 Developer Scorecard article on Sencha.com.