Famo.us To Open Source Rendering Engine Replacement JavaScript Framework 48
snydeq writes "Famo.us has announced it will be open sourcing its framework for achieving native app performance within the browser, InfoWorld reports. 'Why so much fuss over another JavaScript framework? Mainly because it is unlike any other framework out there: Famo.us replaces the browser's rendering engine with its own, which is written entirely in JavaScript, and fuels it with the GPU acceleration provided by CSS's 3D transformation functions. Most any device these days that can run a modern browser — even a modest smartphone — has some kind of GPU supporting it, so why not leverage that? Armed with Famo.us, developers can maintain a single code base that performs well across many platforms.' Demo code is available on Codepen. Famo.us is also partnering with Firebase, a database as a service for mobile and Web apps."
Still won't work with IE (Score:2)
<clippy> It looks like you're trying to use advanced CSS/javascript features that we don't support. Would you like to write a letter instead </clippy>
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Or Opera.
I just get a page of junk.
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No, that's just Opera.
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Doesn't work on Firefox 24 ESR either.
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It's "web native" which means it sucks *and* it sucks.
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Wow, I take that back.
It sucks cubed!
It bogs down my Core i7 dedicated nvidia ivy bridge system rendering a few dozen translucent quads. LOL!
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the thing with css transforms afaik(from what I've seen, read) is that they don't cause a refresh of the DOM for the browsers.
I don't really get why the fuck you would need "native application performance" if it's talking about native application performance when it comes to fucking boxes with static content.
now if the devices had ok canvas support..
on another related thing, I was playing around with intel xdk(formerly appmobi??) today. trying to get the App Game Interface(basically should act like a canvas
Re:Native speed (Score:1)
Runs very well on Chrome, Win 7, onboard ATI HD graphics.
Doesn't work on any other browser - redirected to /c/.
Slow on Chrome on the phone.
captcha: cheeeks
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Runs nicely on my work laptop:
Chrome 31
Asus X550CC
Nvidia 720M chipset
2ghz Core i7U
8gb of RAM
Too lazy to write a cross-platform website? (Score:5, Funny)
Too lazy to write a cross-platform website? No worry dawg, we put a browser in your browser, so you can suck while you suck.
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And battery - running the GPU harder sucks juice fast on Android phones.
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Because leverage is not a verb.
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Sure it is. Been used as one for going on 60 years.
Re: Why not leverage that? (Score:2)
Has it been used as a replacement for 'use' by buzzword-spouting marketdroids for that long?
WTF? (Score:5, Interesting)
Famo.us To Open Source Rendering Engine Replacement JavaScript Framework
That headline was generated using one of those marketing buzzword generators, wasn't it?
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I read it 3 or 4 times before I gave up and read the summary. Sounds like someone (submitter and the one accepting the submission) are easily excitable, or it is a marketing placement (which does not necessarily mean "for pay", good connections can achieve more, sometimes).
Unless I'm wrong and this is the most exciting thing since the creation of http://www.reddit.com/r/cats/ [reddit.com]
impact on the mobile frameworks out there (Score:2)
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if it's the guy that headed the html5 app versions of the facebook app, then the impact is neglible.
jqm itself is getting pointless. well it always kinda was pointless since it's heavier than normal jquery! and causes all kind of headaches with the "cool tricks" it uses for loading the next page to the same (with javascript, wanna guess what that does for memory??)page etc.
Blink? (Score:2)
Famo.us replaces the browser's rendering engine with its own, which is written entirely in JavaScript, and fuels it with the GPU acceleration provided by CSS's 3D transformation functions.
To me, that sounds very much like the direction in which Chrome/Blink is heading - shrink the C++ codebase and improve all things Javascripty by removing the costly native/JS boundaries (allowing the browser, for example, to do interprocedural optimizations between the page code and the DOM routines etc.). Except that Blink at least sounds reputable. :-)
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In a way, yes. Browser were already using something called a the 'shadow DOM', they are starting to make it available to web developers:
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/working-with-shadow-dom [teamtreehouse.com]
So finally HTML5 is getting reusable components and templates, instead of more Javascript, finally some more declerative support:
http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/webcomponents/index.html#1 [appspot.com]
I'll fix that... (Score:2)
s/performs well across many platforms/performs well only on platforms with GPU accelerated browsers supporting new CSS3 3D standards (but this is still a working draft, so not an official standard). Doesn't work at all on platforms without said support/
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Well, it works acceptably on my BlackBerry Z10. Way better than jQuery Mobile at least, but that's not exactly a high-bar.
It works wonderfully on my bargain-basement Windows 7 netbook in Chrome 31, but doesn't work at all in FireFox 25 or IE 11.
I figure by that time it works acceptably in enough places, it'll be useless -- solving a problem no one has any more.
Now the wait is (Score:3)
For the Dalvik version which can run on an Android simulator in Eclipse under
Windows 8, churning away within Virtualbox on a Mac OS X.
Obligatory (Score:2)
http://xkcd.com/927/ [xkcd.com]
Translation (Score:4, Interesting)
Let me translate the article:
Famo.us built a Javascript framework for rendering.
They expected to sell their technology to Google.
Their plan backfired, because nobody was interested into their product, and they had no interesting application.
So they "open-sourced" their framework (since it's Javascript, it's already "open-source"), in the hope that some users will come up with a brilliant application, and that their product will have a real value (and so that the company will be saleable).
While their concept is interesting, I very much doubt that it will ever have a market value.
It's an existing product searching for its market, instead of a product designed for an identified market.
Bu.lls.hit (Score:2)
I c.an pu.t ina.pprop.riate punctua.tion in my wr.iting too.
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It doesn't matter. They are abusing the domain name system to make the dot look like punctuation in the middle of a word. This is a thing the world would be better without.
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You seem to be a bit over sensitive today.Is your real name will.i.am?
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It doesn't matter. They are abusing the domain name system to make the dot look like punctuation in the middle of a word.
That's a side effect. They're using the domain name system to make the full name look like a single word. Yes, it's a little bit hipsterish, but nothing to get in a flap about.
It's called marketing. You're not going to forget that URL in a hurry, are you?
I'm all for javascript... (Score:2)
Kinda like threejs maybe.
I can still see div's and other usual html elements there, not even a canvas.
So I suspect the browser still renders stuff, html that the framework will generate for you. It's not clear to me what they are replacing from w