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  • Sencha Touch - mobile web development framework

    Ian Alderson 2:32 pm on 18th June, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    At Caplin we have been using various UI widgets from Ext JS (available from the renamed Sencha company) within Caplin Trader for a couple of years.

    The Ext JS widgets that we have used have been an excellent complement to the real time financial components that we’ve written. They have saved us a considerable amount of time and effort; without these we would have had to write and test our own versions from scratch.

    Sencha Touch

    Given the good experiences I’ve had with Ext JS previously, I am extremely excited about the announcement of Sencha Touch. For the past 9 months I’ve been playing around with mobile web development, initially writing everything from scratch and using the various HTML5 features as appropriate.

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  • Apple releases Safari 5 with HTML 5 WebSocket support

    Martin Tyler 9:07 am on 8th June, 2010 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    The iPhone 4 announcement obviously trumped this at WWDC 2010, but Apple have also released Safari 5. If you read about what’s new you will see lots of HTML5 stuff, including WebSocket.

    But as I wrote about last week, which version of HTML WebSocket? Is it the same as the latest version of Google Chrome? Google made a clear statement about the version and how it will not maintain compatibility until the specification is more stable, but I cannot find any info from Apple on this. Is it the same code base since they are both WebKit browsers?

    So that’s the two smaller browsers (market share) with some support for WebSocket, when will IE and Firefox join the party?

     

  • Which version of HTML5 WebSocket?

    Martin Tyler 9:11 am on 3rd June, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    I have blogged about Why we don’t need HTML5 WebSocket previously – and to recap, it’s not that we don’t need it, it’s not really that important until it is far more widespread and that is a very long way off.

    Anyway, Google have just announced that they have Updated WebSocket in Chrome. I follow the hybi mailing list which is where most WebSocket discussion goes on and there is far from a consensus on many aspects of WebSocket, which has led to the changes the Google blog mentions, and there will almost certainly be more. Google noted this too and state that they will continue to update their WebSocket implementation regardless of compatibility issues until a more stable spec is available.

    So where does that leave us? The only browser that supports WebSocket is updating and will continue to update its support for WebSocket, breaking compatibility with WebSocket servers, who will most likely also be updating to newer versions as they are available. I think this is the right choice for Chrome and server implementers – but it does mean that WebSocket for any kind of serious web application is clearly not viable. I hope any web apps and server implementations can handle the compatibility issues gracefully so they can fallback to other Comet techniques, as they have to with all other browsers anyway.

    I look forward to a day when WebSocket is usable – but for now it’s business as usual.

     

  • HTML5 vs Flash - The Saga Continues

    Ian Alderson 12:58 pm on 30th April, 2010 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    Yesterday there were a couple of important posts that have reignited the fire under the HTML5 vs Flash debate. The first was Thoughts On Flash from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The second was the riposte from Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, via Alan Murray’s exclusive interview, Highlights: The Journal’s Exclusive Interview With Adobe CEO.

    Unsurprisingly these views have propagated around the Internet like wildfire. For a long while there have been claims and counter claims about HTML5 signalling the death of Flash, however this is the first time that someone in Jobs’ position has taken such a firm position.

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