Short introduction to Sencha Ext JS

Sencha's Ext JS is one of the most comprehensive Rich Internet Application (RIA) frameworks on the market. An RIA framework can produce web frontend that behaves like a desktop application. Ext JS supports many features such as proxy storage, charting, managing SVG, tabs, toolbars, a myriad of different form inputs and many, many others. There are other popular RIA frameworks, such as Java-based Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and Python-based Dojo. Both frameworks can be integrated with Highcharts via third-party contributed software.

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See http://www.highcharts.com/download for the full list of software contributed by other developers.

The Highcharts extension was originally written by Daniel Kloosterman for Ext JS 2+ as an adapter, as it wasn't supporting any charts. In Ext JS 3, it started adopting the YUI charting library as the charting solution. However the charts lack features and style, and the main drawback is that they require Flash to run. Since...