Sencha Touch

Sencha Touch is a user interface (UI) JavaScript library, or framework, specifically built for the Mobile Web. It can be used by Web developers to develop user interfaces for mobile web applications that look and feel like native applications on supported mobile devices. It is fully based on web standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Sencha Touch aims to enable developers to quickly and easily create HTML5 based mobile apps that work on Android, iOS, Windows, Tizen and BlackBerry devices, and produce a native-app-like experience inside a browser.

Networking Support:

1. HTTP

2. GPS (location-based web services and accelerometer input)

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Distribution of a Sencha Touch application through a general purpose browser, regardless of the device, is free of charge an embedded license is not required. A general purpose web browser has a URL bar and a general browser "Chrome".

It's used HTML 5, CSS3 and JavaScript.

Audio Video Support:

Provides HTML5 to deliver components like audio and video, as well as a local Storage proxy for saving data offline. Provides CSS3 style sheets for robust styling layer possible.

Provides a simple Container for HTML5 Video

Yes

Data Integration

1. AJAX

2. JSONP

3. YQL

Saving data offline with local Storage writers

GUI Support:

Easily scales to different resolutions for maximum compatibility with different iPhone, iPad, and the various Android phones.

HTML5 and CSS3 allow higher flexibility.

Great support for animations and enhanced touch events

Sencha publishes the road map for all of our frameworks under each respective products' "Road Map" tab. To learn more about our current Ext JS Road Map, visit Sencha's Ext JS Road Map page.

Sencha Touch is a user interface (UI) JavaScript library, or framework, specifically built for Mobile Web. It can be used by Web developers to develop user interfaces for mobile web applications that look and feel like native applications on supported mobile devices. It is fully based on web standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.Sencha Touch enables you to quickly and easily create HTML5 based mobile apps that work on Android, iOS and Blackberry devices and produce a native-app-like experience inside a browser.

I think extjs is to sencha what windows is to microsoft. Yes, modern browsers on desktop or pads/phones should support extjs framework. However, sencha touch is optimized for the pads/phones.