Did these guys just reinvent the Web? • Hacker News Board

Re: Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

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Post by zuppy » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:32 AM UTC

bradwestness wrote: post #8

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.

Does anyone really want that? Web is currently awful for mobile games: hard to interact with the content (see how scroll is handled in javascript) and low performance no matter how many tricks you do. Also, don't forget that you'll have to handle payments by yourself (and impulse shopping will not work if users will have to fill the credit card every time).

edit: I've opened that page in Firefox, it won't show the demo. I guess it won't show it on IE also, but I haven't tried. So who's their target? 25% of the users?

Re: Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

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Post by onion2k » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:35 AM UTC

Sounds like they came up with a novel and impressive optimisation that everyone could benefit from, but decided to keep it to themselves and charge for it. So less "reinvent the web" than "go back to the way things were before the web" really.

Whether or not there's anything wrong with that is left up to the reader. :)

Re: Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

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Post by diminish » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:36 AM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #9

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

so it doesn't work on firefox..

Re: Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

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Post by philhippus » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:38 AM UTC

"We were 14 times faster than compiled C in Chrome..." I feel this part needs clarification. As I understand it the "in Chrome" part is key, as they were bypassing the browser and interpreting javascript through compiled C (matrix3d).

Re: Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

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Post by Ygg2 » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:39 AM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #9

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

It seems the demo doesn't work on FireFox, but does on Chrome. Firefox just redirects to http://famo.us/c

Re: Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

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Post by adam-a » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:40 AM UTC

The demo doesn't work on Firefox 27.0a1 on my MacBook Pro. Any effort to reinvent the web needs to keep compatibility in mind.

Tried it on my phone and the performance was good but still noticeably stuttering. Could be an interesting approach if they cut down the hyperbole and carry on improving.

Re: Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

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Post by swatkat » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:41 AM UTC

Off topic: Why does it say Urasium Michael Arrington? Urasium was a typo in some Apple demo event.

[0]https://twitter.com/onesleepynerd/statuses/34425107788713164...

Re: Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

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Post by usernew1817 » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:42 AM UTC

I remember these guys, is it just me or have they been in beta for like 3 years

Re: Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

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Post by jimzvz » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:44 AM UTC

InternalRun wrote: post #2

Betteridge's law of headlines comes to mind.

What's the law for someone always mentioning Betteridge's law of headlines when a headline is posed as a question on Hacker News?

Re: Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

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Post by pavlov » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 10:45 AM UTC

Is this just a closed-source ripo^H^H^H^H fork of Three.js?

The example shown on famo.us is identical to MrDoob's Three.js example that uses CSS3:

http://www.mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/threejs/css3d/periodict...

Edit: looks like it's the other way around -- according to MrDoob's G+ post from last year, he based his Three.js CSS3 example directly on the design created by famo.us: https://plus.google.com/113862800338869870683/posts/QcFk5HrW...