Famo.us open to everyone
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Famo.us open to everyone
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Re: Famo.us open to everyone
#2I like this as a concept, but I wouldn't recommend to build websites with it. I wonder how user-accessible websites built with famo.us are — for example I can't just use my arrow keys to navigate up/down and tab'ing through elements does not move the scroll-bar accordingly, this could be an issue for some, older internet users.
Re: Famo.us open to everyone
#3I like this as a concept, but I wouldn't recommend to build websites with it. I wonder how user-accessible websites built with famo.us are — for example I can't just use my arrow keys to navigate up/down and tab'ing through elements does not move the scroll-bar accordingly, this could be an issue for some, older internet users.
You can build that functionality if it's really a problem. Also surfaces within Famo.us afaik are just like normal sections on a webpage where your normal tabbing and arrow keys will work.
But if you're building more traditional looking web apps in famo.us, I don't think you'll run into the issues you're talking about.
Re: Famo.us open to everyone
#4I like this as a concept, but I wouldn't recommend to build websites with it. I wonder how user-accessible websites built with famo.us are — for example I can't just use my arrow keys to navigate up/down and tab'ing through elements does not move the scroll-bar accordingly, this could be an issue for some, older internet users.
There definitely are some accessibility issues especially for those with limited mobility where using the arrow keys is a necessity.
Re: Famo.us open to everyone
#5The Famo.us session (along with a couple others) at last year's HTML5 conference in SF is what made me decide to make the shift to full time iOS development. Every benchmark was presented in terms relative to native app development: "transitions are 95% as smooth as native apps;" "rendering times take only 3% longer than native apps."
Of course mobile web development is important, but I don't really see where Famo.us's market is. Full feature desktop web?
Re: Famo.us open to everyone
#6Just scrolling the website is jerky on my iPad Air. That doesn't seem like good design.
Re: Famo.us open to everyone
#7Just scrolling the website is jerky on my iPad Air. That doesn't seem like good design.
it's jerky on my (haswell) desktop too. It seems that one of the things they've done to make it feel faster is to mess with the scroll wheel - it scrolls slightly more than the default which makes using the site feel sort of "fake".
Re: Famo.us open to everyone
#8Scroll from the top to the bottom (or vice versa) really hard.
Watch the "3d layout engine" flip out thoroughly (tested only on chrome stable on darwin)
Re: Famo.us open to everyone
#9I found it interesting that most of the demos provided work very poorly for "desktop web".
I think frameworks like this exist in a no-mans land - A modern web framework is great because it allows you to easily deploy one responsive app to a variety of devices/screen sizes/user inputs. This comes at the expense of performance compared to a native mobile app.
So if you are building a web framework that is built entirely with mobile in mind, then why choose the framework over native development? You are sacrificing platform agnosticism AND performance at the same time.
Re: Famo.us open to everyone
#10Just scrolling the website is jerky on my iPad Air. That doesn't seem like good design.
it's jerky on my (haswell) desktop too. It seems that one of the things they've done to make it feel faster is to mess with the scroll wheel - it scrolls slightly more than the default which makes using the site feel sort of "fake".
It seems like they heavily turned on scroll acceleration. If I scroll 1 "click" of my mousewheel the scroll bar only move a tiny almost imperceptible amount.
If I scroll a lot the bar will fly off the top / bottom of the scrollable area and slowly come back.
Feels like it needs a little work.