I 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.
I've been at every event since early Dec and I was in the private beta and while they are still working some things out, you wouldn't really be able to tell if some of these demos were obj-c or .js from what they have built.
I feel like the engine reminds me more of the slickness and responsiveness of a Window Mobile 8 interface as opposed to an iOS interface with how smooth some of the scrolling is.
I'm even more confused now. I looked at their other repos and there is a smattering of information to be found in "Guides". None of the demo links work except for the mobile page that someone posted below.
There's nothing on the actual website except a login and when i register I'm "76882 in line".
If I try to access the documentation (http://famo.us/docs), I'm told I need to be a developer and I can't access it.
A resounding meh, I've wasted 10 minutes trying to work out how this thing works and what I can do with it. Some other kind folks have provided CodePen links, but back to work for me.
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I 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.
I've been at every event since early Dec and I was in the private beta and while they are still working some things out, you wouldn't really be able to tell if some of these demos were obj-c or .js from what they have built.
I feel like the engine reminds me more of the slickness and responsiveness of a Window Mobile 8 interface as opposed to an iOS interface with how smooth some of the scrolling is.
For those of us who haven't used WM, is that a good thing or not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIGtHhAfe8w
Examples page is also broken..
https://github.com/Famous/examples
I'm even more confused now. I looked at their other repos and there is a smattering of information to be found in "Guides". None of the demo links work except for the mobile page that someone posted below.
There's nothing on the actual website except a login and when i register I'm "76882 in line".
If I try to access the documentation (http://famo.us/docs), I'm told I need to be a developer and I can't access it.
A resounding meh, I've wasted 10 minutes trying to work out how this thing works and what I can do with it. Some other kind folks have provided CodePen links, but back to work for me.