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by DocSavage 4454 days ago
A lot of the links from the repo README are broken or in an invite-only area. The main docs I've seen are the markdown guides here:

https://github.com/Famous/guides

The biggest disappointment is what seems like less-than-rock-solid desktop browser support. Support for iOS and Android only with "Broader support for more browsers is coming"?? (After all the discussion of not releasing until everything is rock solid?) I noticed it with some of the initial demos that didn't allow you to rotate the element chart using your mouse, but it worked fine on an iPad. For all the talk of 3d, I don't see anything on par with a three.js in the source.

Seems like React + a physics engine...
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malandrew 4454 days ago
Basically the framework was designed from day one to target the weakest devices for which decent results are possible. The plan is to expand support from there. Since mobile devices came first, a lot of the work so far has been focused on touch input and higher order touch gestures that involved several fingers.

Mouse support in desktop browsers will improve over time. Designing input to accommodate two fairly different inputs is pretty tricky and this isn't a solved problem anywhere yet. Sites/apps that work in both mobile touch and desktop browser settings currently all use mouse pointer interactions (basically just tap, double tap, swipe) Adding multi-touch interactions complicates things quite a bit. Since we're working from mobile towards desktops.

We're working on better desktop support ourselves and would love contributions from the community that help improve the desktop experience for everything.

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oldgun 4454 days ago
Desktop? I thought they were building for phones.

http://m.infoworld.com/t/mobile-development/famous-were-buil...

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DocSavage 4454 days ago
Their marketing: "Famo.us provides a powerful JavaScript framework and developer tools designed to build rich, fast web applications." Yeah, it looks like it's mainly targeted toward mobile devices, not that it was clear before today. Earlier reports mentioned desktops together with mobile, like this one: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/famo-us-is-a-gaming-engine-... "...it works on nearly any platform, including desktops, Android, and iOS."
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