[lively-kernel] Sencha

Philip Weaver philmaker at gmail.com
Sun Jun 27 06:51:52 CEST 2010


*14 Million Dollars*
http://www.sencha.com/blog/2010/06/24/sequoia-capital-invests-in-sencha/

I just added a new
document<http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYWzJ6ByFTvFZGhqNmI2cGhfMjg4ZnhraDRwaGc&hl=en>.
It's sparse but you'll get the idea. Please join this conversation and
contribute to this document. This might need to be discussed offline but I'm
not sure.

Thanks,
Philip

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYWzJ6ByFTvFZGhqNmI2cGhfMjg4ZnhraDRwaGc&hl=en

Philip

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Philip Weaver <philmaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> I used the ExtJS framework (of Sencha) back in 2007 around the time Project
> Flair (now Lively) was announced. It is well designed but does not have the
> same vision as Lively: direct manipulation and vectors. ExtJS abruptly
> changed their license in 2008 which led to some revolt. A couple of weeks
> ago ExtJS renamed themselves to Sencha and also brought in the RaphaelJS SVG
> framework and a touch framework.
>
> Many of the subscribers on this mailing list have more of a background
> focusing on Smalltalk and Squeak than with web development. So I do think
> it's beneficial that we increase awareness and discuss what already exists
> out there in web toolkit land.
>
> Philip
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Steve Wart <steve at wart.ca> wrote:
>
>> Licensing looks complicated, but it seems they've specifically tried to
>> make it compatible with non-GPL projects. Is BSD the same as MIT?
>>
>> But then I'm confused about the $219 developer license.
>>
>> Should be fun to play with though. There's also http://www.phonegap.com/which is not a UI framework, but they provide a Javascript API to some of
>> the more proprietary device features (e.g. camera and accelerometer) -- it's
>> for local deployment, not web-based, but it's just serving up local
>> resources from your device.
>>
>> One nice thing about these guys is they provide simulators for a variety
>> of mobile devices. The simulator code is also open-source.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Dan Ingalls <DanHHIngalls at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Folks -
>>>
>>> Check this out. Very close to an HTML app store.
>>>
>>>        http://www.sencha.com
>>>
>>> Could be fun to Lively Up this one ;-)
>>>
>>>        - D
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