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Betteridge's law of headlines comes to mind.
This was a particular bad reference since the title was very rhetorical and not meant to be taken literally.
Their demo on http://famo.us is pretty impressive at least, it runs flawlessly smooth on my "ancient" iPad 2.
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. :)
So they're planning on releasing open source and charging for components on top.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the law for someone always mentioning Betteridge's law of headlines when a headline is posed as a question on Hacker News?
Ahem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5742893
Any time a commenter cries ad hominem, there will be a sub-thread arguing about the definition of ad hominem.
Seems browsers are obsolete and are now just getting in the way. People are trying to use every loophole and new technology possible to bypass features implemented in browsers. I think it's time browsers took a step back and gave more control to developers. It's time for a major rethink of what a browser should be/do.
Mobile devices have turned the process of installing an app into something 'close enough' to the experience of browsing the web that I think a lot of consumers wouldn't notice if the twitter web site disappeared (except that would be big news, and they wouldn't be able to avoid all the complaining).
Conclusion... I don't know, but I think our current concept of a browser and the web might be reaching the end of it's usefulness. More data needed.
> Welcome to famo.us > a javascript engine and framework that solves HTML5 performance And doesn't work in Firefox. Aweso.me!
Cool stuff but I wouldn't call it re-inventing the web
These guys optimized some JS and you called it "reinvent the WWW". Ridiculous.