Our 24th issue includes the launch of Sencha Space and some great CSS articles.
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Sencha Official
Announcing Sencha Space
Sencha Space has been simmering for a while now and has now been officially launched. This blog post introduces the platform and all it has to offer.
Developing for Google Glass with Sencha Touch
Google Glass is yet another platform app developers are going to be targeting soon and this blog post discusses how Sencha Touch can be used to deploy to it.
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JavaScript
PromisesJS.org
This website documents and promotes the use of promises in JavaScript.
Avoiding anonymous JavaScript functions
This article explains why anonymous functions are bad and how we should avoid them.
7 Things You Need To Know About Web Workers
7 useful nuggets about WebWorkers and how they work.
JavascriptOO
Looking for a JavaScript library for your next project? Filter a huge number of libraries by the features you need to find the perfect one.
HTML5
Improving front page performance: removing images, 5 ways
Removing and optimising images is an easy way to speed up your page loads - this article talks about techniques to achieve this.
10 HTML Tags You Might Not Be Using
Aurello De Rosa looks at 10 little used HTML tags that might be useful in your next project.
CSS
High Performance Animations
Paul Irish and Paul Lewis talk about how you can animate things cheaply in the browser using CSS Transforms.
The Current Generation of CSS3 Selectors
A whole host of new CSS selectors are available and can be used now. This article takes a look at some of the most useful ones.
Boxes That Fill Height (Or More) (and Don't Squish)
Chris Coyier talks about how FlexBox can help us make boxes fill the heights of their parents.
Quiz
Which of the following config options will add default text to an Ext JS TextField?
1. placeHolder: 'Default Text'
2. placeHolderText: 'Default Text'
3. emptyText: 'Default Text'
4. defaultText: 'Default Text'
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