The render tree document is pretty interesting https://github.com/Famous/guides/blob/master/dev/2014-04-09-...
Famo.us is now open source
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Re: Famo.us is now open source
#92We participated in the private beta and wrote up a simple (I hope) post of the basics of developing a Famo.us app here - http://blog.percolatestudio.com/engineering/the-future-of-ja...
The closed nature of their 'open source' project can be frustrating at times. Having said that and despite all the hype, famo.us is sitting in a pretty unique position in the html mobile web scene and frankly I'm more excited about it than any of the alternatives (sencha, jquery mobile, etc).
It's early days, I wouldn't write it off yet...
Re: Famo.us is now open source
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they are only letting 500 people in. There are 75k on the list. I signed up 2 years ago and I am number 74606. Looks like it will be at least a few months till I can look at the documentation
500 or so per day. This number may be adjusted up or down depending on whether we are feeling overwhelmed. However I expect it to rise over time as those that get in early help those that get in later (IRC, forums, etc.). We're planning on getting everyone access within 40 days or so.
Had hoped to give this a try for our new product. Too many uncertain timelines I think to give it a try.
Re: Famo.us is now open source
#94We participated in the private beta and wrote up a simple (I hope) post of the basics of developing a Famo.us app here - http://blog.percolatestudio.com/engineering/the-future-of-ja... The closed nature of their 'open source' project can be frustrating at times. Having said that and despite all the hype, famo.us is sitting in a pretty unique position in the html mobile web scene and frankly I'm more excited about it…
I like how you sumed it up
> Famo.us is built around a neat idea: by directly using the CSS matrix3d transform in combination with the window.requestAnimationFrame function, you can describe the complete layout and animation of your app in a way that’s hardware accelerated with consistent performance.
> It’s a stroke of genius, but in order to implement that simple idea you need a sophisticated math library to help translate your app’s UI into the series of matrix transformations that get pushed to the GPU. This library is Famo.us.
Re: Famo.us is now open source
#95More demos are at: http://demo.famo.us/ Facebook Paper: http://demo.famo.us/paper/ Yahoo Weather: http://disrupt.famo.us/1022e61cbff3fe1fc382a81a2d6e2396078a6... Rise: http://demo.famo.us/rise/
The Paper demo is quite impressive on my phone (iPhone 5s).
Anyone who struggled with touch events in an HTML app should be impressed.
Re: Famo.us is now open source
#96I hate to be "that guy," but what is Famous? http://famo.us doesn't say anything on the index, and the About page is broken. Is it just a library? Toolchain? A real product?
It's a platform that is supposed to solve the problem that HTML5 promised by subverting the DOM with a custom rendering engine (A port of the Unity Engine to JavaScript). It basically allows you to run a web app at native app performance, cross platform all in your web browser. Demos - http://demo.famo.us/ Codepen Examples - http://www.codepen.io/befamous/ edit: Also found this - http://famo.us/about
"allows you to run a web app at native app performance"
I would say "promises" instead of "allows". It is still experimental.
Re: Famo.us is now open source
#97Great news! But the fact that their own website is broken on Safari on iOS7 doesn't give me much hope that this is easy to develop for http://famo.us/
Not working on latest stable Windows Phone 8 either.
Re: Famo.us is now open source
#98I like Famous but there is so much buzz around it. ThreeJS had CSS and SVG rendered before they even started. Some projects, thanks to VCs gets too much marketing that put main players under their shadows. MeteorJS is the same.
It would be unfair to call Meteor's and Famous' marketing "the same". Some facts: - Nobody knew about Meteor before their HN launch[0] - Famous appeared at conferences, TechCrunch Disrupt and others with demos of periodic table[1] (which was a ported example from ThreeJS) - Meteor launched on HN, people loved it, and only then they raised VC and announced it [2] - Famous announced their funding and sometimes dropped…
Ricardo Cabello ported Famo.us' periodic table demo to ThreeJS to show that it might not be such a novel library: https://plus.google.com/+RicardoCabello/posts/QcFk5HrWran
Re: Famo.us is now open source
#99The about section of the website is completely blank for me in the latest firefox. The docs and the guides pages on famo.us redirect me to a login page. Am I missing something?
Same here - there's clearly some content in the source for the /about page but nothing showing for me either (FF28, WinXP).
Spotted a typo too, unviersity, can't seem to get back the source that I spotted it in, perhaps they're updating as we type.
Re: Famo.us is now open source
#100Anyone know why the text is so blurry in Chrome?
Half pixels; the dreaded "dubstep effect." They should be rounding the translation values before applying the matrix, at least on elements with text at screen depth.