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ExtJS4 IE Resize on Zoom

Here’s an easy way to break zoom in and out capability in IE7+ in your ExtJS4 application:

There’s a <meta> tag (the ones that go into <head>) that was recommended to me for the sake of reducing IE testing efforts:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8"/>

The idea here is it forces many IEs to act all in IE8 mode, so you can basically do quick tests in just IE8 and still get a good test coverage. However, it took me some effort to figure out that this breaks re-sizing capability of a Viewport on zoom in IE.

Rating: 10.0/10 (4 votes cast)

Another ExtJS Pro Shop!

I came across a second company that develops and sells custom ExtJS components: Bryntum. Check out their amazing Gantt Demo:

…this is all drag-and-drop, in browser! Even works in IE! Windows-GUI-quality component!

They have a few more components, but this one just blows my mind. I’ve always believed in ExtJS, but now i see that it truly is the next stage in evolution of JavaScript. Sencha, you will cash in big. Now there are at least 2 pro shops who will as well.

If there are more companies out there, please let me know; only other one I heard of is Extensible.

Rating: 6.5/10 (4 votes cast)

ExtJS4 Dev Tools of a Pro

Apologies for the self-proclaimed “Pro” title. My cred: 1 year ExtJS3 and ExtJS4 for almost a year now, since it came out. I build enterprise portals for large organizations and I usually develop remotely over VPN in Clients’ environments. This means I do not always have the luxury of installing Visual Studio, so I have to stick to a minimal setup. However, it works great!

Let’s start of with my favorite: Notepad++

Small download & very fast application
Use “Explorer” plugin (left panels in the above screenshot)
Shown with “Obsidian” theme
Has syntax highlighting for pretty much every language
Can zoom in/out of text very easy ; great for working with text on 24″+ monitors
Great support for file searching & replacing
Can collapse sections

My next tool “combo” is FireFox + FireBug + Illuminations

Rating: 8.6/10 (5 votes cast)

Down with SOPA & PIPA

Please check out Google’s excellent page where you can learn more and sign an online petition against this pending legislation in the US.

Currently, there’s no one in the world that can take down any website. At best, you can pursue local laws against hosting providers for a site you want taken down. If this legislation goes through, someone (i.e. Facebook) could throw some dollars at some lawyers and politicians, and get a “on/off” button to kill, let’s say Google Plus service, with complete disregard for any judicial process.

This affects every single person reading this page. If Sencha disagrees with my message here – tough luck. It’s a free Internet. If PIPA/SOPA goes through, Sencha could have this page taken down in a flash, using nothing but money.

I urge you to spread awareness of this message! Share this post!

Rating: 8.7/10 (3 votes cast)

Sencha’s Forum Spammed

First off let me say that Sencha is a young company and I am behind their vision 100%. Looks like they’re going through some rough waters – their forum has been flooded with spam like I’ve never seen. Take a look:

http://www.sencha.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?81-Ext-Discussion

Rating: 10.0/10 (3 votes cast)