We are pleased to announce the availability of Ext JS 3.3 beta 1 for immediate download. This release introduces great new Calendar and PivotGrid components, plus over 160 enhancements and bug fixes.

The Ext GWT team is happy to announce the availability of Ext GWT 2.2.0 beta. This release brings several improvements and new features. A full change log and online documentation can be found on the download page.

We thought we'd see if you can really duplicate popular Flash ads in HTML5 and CSS3. Take a look at these popular Flash ads and compare them to our CSS3 recreations. It's a little uncanny.

If you have worked with Java, you are undoubtedly familiar with the JavaDoc tool. JavaDoc is the de facto standard for creating API documentation based on comments in Java source code. Although JavaDoc documentation contains most of the information you are looking for, the way it presents that information leaves a lot to be desired. Sencha Docs offers a fresh take on API documentation for Java.

Using standard Ext components and a couple of custom ones, you can create a great looking diff viewer for the web that requires no backend.

We've finalized the dates and location for our 2010 User Conference. It will be at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco from November 14th through 17th.

When data can be processed, organized, structured or presented in a given context so as to make them useful, it becomes powerful information. Give your web app more context by adding Microdata.

SASS, which stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets, adds nested rules, variables, mixins, and selector inheritance on top of your normal CSS, which you compile before you deploy -- so basically you write CSS like it's 2099.

Last week, we combined forces with jQTouch and Raphaël to tackle this new challenge of creating awesome web applications on touch based devices. We also released the first beta of Sencha Touch, our framework for building mobile applications for iOS and Android. And today, I'm thrilled to announce that Sequoia Capital is investing $14M in Sencha.

We're excited to introduce Sencha Touch, the first HTML5 framework for mobile devices. We think it's the first cross-platform framework that builds web apps that make sense for mobile devices.

Exciting things are happening! Today, we’re combining forces with the jQTouch and Raphaël projects, changing our company name to Sencha, and moving our web address from www.extjs.com to www.sencha.com.

Adobe and Microsoft are claiming HTML5 is ten years away. Apple is saying it's here right now. HTML5 Family technologies are here in 2010 on every mobile device that matters.

Various imprecise forms of web-based geolocation have been in use for some time. However, today we have a tons of location-aware devices using advanced location sensing techniques.

Heavy computing has historically been difficult to achieve using JavaScript on the browser. Web Workers are brand new in the HTML5 Family and provide a new way of performing processor-intensive tasks.

Many of the benefits people associate with “HTML5” is actually CSS3 and Javascript. The cutting-edge modules of CSS3 build on the widely supported CSS2.1 spec and allow for truly stunning interfaces.

We're blogging about next generation web technologies and how they fit into an AJAX framework like Ext JS. Today we'll dig into one of the easier and smaller pieces: Web Storage.

Although there are many excellent resources out there describing details of HTML5, including the core specification itself, they are generally technical and many of them are out of synch with the current state of the specs. So, we thought a short primer on HTML5 might be in order.

Attensa provides software for medium-to-large companies and government agencies that manages the distribution of news and high-value information: "Ext JS allowed us to develop a rich, sophisticated interface in less time and with a smaller development team than would have been needed with other JavaScript UI frameworks."

We are excited to announce the release of Ext Designer, our new productivity tool for rapidly generating Ext interfaces. Ext Designer is written completely in Ext JS and runs as a desktop application on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Xero is both a company and a product. The company was founded in Wellington, New Zealand in 2006 and is listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange. Xero has offices in New Zealand, Australia and the UK but it’s sold globally, with over 17,000 customers in over 50 countries.