Famo.us To Open Source Rendering Engine Replacement JavaScript Framework

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."

Comments

Re:Native speed my ass

[binarylarry]

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!

Too lazy to write a cross-platform website?

[pavon]

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.

Re:Still won't work with IE

[ledow]

Or Opera.

I just get a page of junk.

WTF?

[amicusNYCL]

Famo.us To Open Source Rendering Engine Replacement JavaScript Framework

That headline was generated using one of those marketing buzzword generators, wasn't it?

Re:WTF?

[mha]

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/

Now the wait is

[Mister Liberty]

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.

Re:Still won't work with IE

[viperidaenz]

Doesn't work on Firefox 24 ESR either.

Re:I'll fix that...

[narcc]

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.

Translation

[eulernet]

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.

Re:Still won't work with IE

[jez9999]

No, that's just Opera.

Re:Bu.lls.hit

[wonkey_monkey]

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?