Sencha Dev
posted August 2, 2010 # 0 Comments
Over the weekend I decided to play around with the Sencha mobile development API to see what kind of learning curve was involved and to see if I could get this list looking more like a native Webkit application. The results can be found here but I suggest only looking in a Webkit browser, as that's what Sencha is designed for.
Overall, the experience was pretty tough. Once I figured out the basic in's and out's of the API it still took some time to dig through all their documentation to find out what I needed to do. They really need to develop some "Introductory Tutorials" to get new users familiar with the fundamental concepts.
The biggest bummer of the experience was realizing that all of the markup for the applications it creates is provided by the Javascript. Your <body> tag is completely empty on page load; not exactly a boon to SEO.
I think I'm going to try out jQTouch next to see what kind of experience it provides. Anyone have any anecdotal insight on what I should expect?
Overall, the experience was pretty tough. Once I figured out the basic in's and out's of the API it still took some time to dig through all their documentation to find out what I needed to do. They really need to develop some "Introductory Tutorials" to get new users familiar with the fundamental concepts.
The biggest bummer of the experience was realizing that all of the markup for the applications it creates is provided by the Javascript. Your <body> tag is completely empty on page load; not exactly a boon to SEO.
I think I'm going to try out jQTouch next to see what kind of experience it provides. Anyone have any anecdotal insight on what I should expect?