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by joeblau 4454 days ago
It's a platform that is supposed to solve the problem that HTML5 promised by subverting the DOM with a custom rendering engine (A port of the Unity Engine to JavaScript). It basically allows you to run a web app at native app performance, cross platform all in your web browser.

Demos - http://demo.famo.us/

Codepen Examples - http://www.codepen.io/befamous/

edit: Also found this - http://famo.us/about
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CmonDev 4454 days ago
"allows you to run a web app at native app performance"

I would say "promises" instead of "allows". It is still experimental.

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joeblau 4454 days ago
I've been at every event since early Dec and I was in the private beta and while they are still working some things out, you wouldn't really be able to tell if some of these demos were obj-c or .js from what they have built.

I feel like the engine reminds me more of the slickness and responsiveness of a Window Mobile 8 interface as opposed to an iOS interface with how smooth some of the scrolling is.

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chrisdevereux 4453 days ago
For those of us who haven't used WM, is that a good thing or not?
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