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Re: Famo.us open to everyone

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Post by nlh »

gress wrote: post #6

Just scrolling the website is jerky on my iPad Air. That doesn't seem like good design.

I hate to be a negative voice but that's the first thing I noticed too. Using Chrome (desktop) and the site just feels all wrong (by re-implementing scrolling, I guess?)

Scrolling seems like one of those things that shouldn't be touched by a 3rd-party library and should be handled by the browser/OS and only the browser/OS (in most cases -- I'm sure there are times when it's necessary, but this doesn't seem like one of them)

Re: Famo.us open to everyone

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Post by lightblade »

gress wrote: post #6

Just scrolling the website is jerky on my iPad Air. That doesn't seem like good design.

Jerky animation is not their only problem. The layout is incorrect with a lot of letters clipped off. The mobile menu breaks when you tap on it a little too fast.

Re: Famo.us open to everyone

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Post by mkoryak »

richo wrote: post #8

Scroll 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)

I think it might be one of those "features" that someone thought would make the site look cool, but really just pissed off the users.

Re: Famo.us open to everyone

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Post by wdmeldon »

I find it interesting how much they seem to be focusing on the "career" aspect. I wonder if they are pivoting to an open source model with premium training.

Even so, I'm not exactly inclined to throw my career behind what boils down to a JS animation library.

Re: Famo.us open to everyone

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Post by squeaky-clean »

richo wrote: post #8

Scroll 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)

Try grabbing the scroll bar with your mouse and pulling it down the page. Nope, apparently scrollbars aren't for that.

This doesn't seem to be designed with regular desktop usage in mind.

Re: Famo.us open to everyone

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Post by qhoc »

There are lots of negative comments. So I may as well complete the list:

- Fundamentally you have to code UI within JS. It's like doing document.write(''); without .html file

- Physic lib is totally useless on mobile. It's slower than pure JS

- Flex grid doesn't work well when you make browser size larger and then smaller. You can see the UI not being refreshed.

Re: Famo.us open to everyone

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Post by brbcoding »

squeaky-clean wrote: post #17
richo wrote: post #8

Scroll 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)

Try grabbing the scroll bar with your mouse and pulling it down the page. Nope, apparently scrollbars aren't for that. This doesn't seem to be designed with regular desktop usage in mind.

With that bounce-back effect it doesn't seem like it was designed with usage in mind.

Re: Famo.us open to everyone

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Post by ewillis1 »

kapnobatairza wrote: post #9

I 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 entirel…

How are you sacrificing platform agnosticism by using a web framework?
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