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Sencha a leader in powering HTML5 development for desktop and mobile applications, today announced a significant upgrade to Ext JS, its flagship development platform for building unmatched cross-browser applications. Ext JS 5 is a big step forward for desktop and mobile application development as developers can now easily build and/or move desktop apps to mobile devices, with little to no modification to the existing code base and within the same development tools they already use. Available immediately, Ext JS 5 further entrenches Sencha as the standard for building apps that, with a single code base, can run on touch-based devices as well as computers using either modern or legacy browsers. The promise of web application development is that developers can easily build applications that run in the widest range of devices and that these applications are always up to date for users. Mobile devices and mobile apps disrupted this model as the industry moved t...

Why EXTJS? There are JavaScript frameworks that are mainly forcing developers to organize application code in layers implementing the Model-View-Controller design pattern. There are more than a dozen MVC JavaScript frameworks that are being used by professional developers: Backbone.js , ExtJS , AngularJS , Ember.js , Knockout just to name a few. First, Core jQuery is just a library of utilities that simplify working with DOM and - you still need to write the Web application using HTML and JavaScript. In addition to it, there are lots and lots of jQuery plugins that include handy widgets to add to your manually created Web site. We just mentioned the frameworks that help better organizing or modularizing your project, but enterprise application may need more. So here comes the Ext JS sales pitch. Ext JS an HTML5 framework that doesn’t require you to write HTML. Your single HTML file (index.html) will just include three files in the head section: one with Ext JS f...