Windows 8 is out and now is the great time to start building your Windows 8 app. If you never had time to go through tidbits of app development before here is what you need to know before you take a plunge. 

Remember that Windows 8 comes in two flavors:

Windows 8 – Runs on Intel processors just like your Windows 7 and will also run most of your Win 7 applications too.

Windows RT – Similar to Windows 8 in look and feel but runs on ARM processors just like most smart phones and tablets, and it will NOT run any of your Windows 7 apps.

What is Sencha Touch?

"Sencha Touch was the first HTML5 mobile JavaScript framework for web applications that feel native on Android, BlackBerry, and iOS. Our extensive tutorials, screencasts and resources are a great way to learn the framework." - Sencha.com

What is JQuery Mobile?

"A unified, HTML5-based user interface system for all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design." - Jquerymobile.com

If we read the definition carefully, we can see that Sencha is a Framework, that means it provides a complete development stack, including in built composite UI controls, also it has its own UI designer app (commercial) which gives you a kind of WYSIWYG interface for building apps quickly. 

While on other hand JQueryMobile is not a framework it's a user interface system in their own words, it does not have its own tools for UI generation (however there are third party web based tools) or their own composite UI controls (may eventually come).

How many times you have seen a decent looking website on your mobile phone (or tablet) and you got amazed? That's because they are either optimized to look great on mobile or they are specifically made for mobile devices.

Here at Intellial, when client comes to us asking to make his website look good on mobile devices, we guide him by presenting various approaches available and discuss which is most suitable for him in terms of both cost and efforts. Here I give you some highlights of which approaches we follow: