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Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

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Post by felixr » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 9:44 AM UTC

Did these guys just reinvent the Web?
javaworld.com

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Post by InternalRun » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:07 AM UTC

Betteridge's law of headlines comes to mind.

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Post by patrickg » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:14 AM UTC

InternalRun wrote: post #2

Betteridge's law of headlines comes to mind.

Yes. Thats why I rarely click on such titles.

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Post by candydance » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:18 AM UTC

InternalRun wrote: post #2

Betteridge's law of headlines comes to mind.

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

I had to look it up, so this might save some others the trouble.

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Post by corobo » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:19 AM UTC

InternalRun wrote: post #2

Betteridge's law of headlines comes to mind.

My instant thought too

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Post by i386 » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:21 AM UTC

patrickg wrote: post #3

InternalRun wrote: post #2

Betteridge's law of headlines comes to mind.

Yes. Thats why I rarely click on such titles.

> Obviously, this isn't exactly the reinvention of the Web, but Famo.us has pushed JavaScript in a novel direction

At at least they admit its just hyperbole... right?

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Post by Hopka » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:23 AM UTC

From the rather vague text I can imagine they are doing matrix multiplication in JavaScript and assigning the end result to a CSS transform. Instead of doing multiple transforms in CSS which is slower. The end result is smoother HTML5 animations but I haven't yet figured out where they reinvented the web.

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Post by bradwestness » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:23 AM UTC

If their performance claims bear out (which, we'll see) I could see this becoming a popular way to deliver apps and games to mobile devices without giving 30% of your income to Apple or whoever.

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Post by kristofferR » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:28 AM UTC

Their demo on http://famo.us is pretty impressive at least, it runs flawlessly smooth on my "ancient" iPad 2.

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Post by cpa » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:29 AM UTC

There's a demo on their homepage: http://famo.us/

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