Jamund, It took me a while to figure it out as well. jQTouch development has been at a snail's pace this year (15 commits by David Kaneda this year), so I thought David was busy with other things and hasn't been working on a mobile framework.
What actually happened was that David had been hired by the ExtJS company (now renamed Sencha) and has been working full-time writing a brand-new mobile framework from the ground-up (using all his experience with jQTouch). Unlike jQTouch, Sencha Touch is well-funded so David can work on it full-time -- but that comes at a price: it isn't free for commercial/proprietary use, like jQTouch is. Instead, it's dual-licensed (free for GPL/open-source use, pay for proprietary use). ExtJS remembers the public uproar that happened when they changed the ExtJS license, restricting it from a free-for-proprietary-use license to a Dual License. In order to avoid this (and to take advantage of the good advertising that comes from sponsoring an open MIT-licensed project), they've decided to partially sponsor jQTouch and bring it under the "Sencha Labs" banner. This way the new maintainer (who I don't think is a full-time employee of ExtJS, but is receiving partial sponsorship from ExtJS) is encouraged to keep the jQTouch project alive as a free open-source offering. > a real breakdown of what we should expect coming out of Sencha Touch? Sencha Touch seems (to me) to be already far ahead of jQTouch in many ways, due to David being able to work on it full-time and also due to all his previous experience building jQTouch. > Is JQTouch dead? No, Sencha has sponsored jQTouch to keep it alive, but as a free, open-source project it won't have the momentum and energy of Sencha Touch. However, due to Sencha's sponsorship, the donations of the community and open-source contributions, it will have some momentum -- certainly more momentum than it's seen over the past 6 months. > Is Sencha Touch, JQTouch without the JQuery? Yes, but more than that -- it looks like it's geared toward the iPad, has iPhone 4 support (high resolution) and has been re-architected from the ground up (probably a better foundation for future growth). > I've had problems with the slowness of JQTouch on my 1st gen iPhone It looks like they've had an eye to the loading speed of Senecha Touch (removing the jQuery dependency & shrinking the codebase such that you can exclude the code for features you're not going to use), so I would guess they've also had an eye to runtime speed. -- peter rust -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jamund Ferguson Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: JQTouch / Sencha Touch Hey Devs, Just wonder if I could get a real breakdown of what we should expect coming out of Sencha Touch? Is JQTouch dead? Is Sencha Touch, JQTouch without the JQuery? I've had problems with the slowness of JQTouch on my 1st gen iPhone and am looking forward to see what Sencha produces with this merger of sorts. I've read the following, but it's not incredibly clear what is going on: http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/ http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?101653-How-does-Sencha-Change-Thi s http://ajaxian.com/archives/sencha-extjs-jqtouch-raphael-connect - Jamund -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en.
