So everything on a Famo.us page is searchable, indexable and live-swappable from API feeds.

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Compare the 2D demo above to the 3D demo (below) to see how much real-time interaction data a Famo.us app can handle.

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In a preliminary version of the demo, Famo.us physics engineer David Valdman showed me a representation of collections of balls with some basic physics attached to them.

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All the better for the performance of all apps, HTML5 and native, but it seems like the team at Famo.us has a good head start.

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Newcomb hopes that these components will someday be a part of WebKit itself so that Famo.us and other frameworks can manipulate these functions directly in the browser without the workaround.

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The same design pattern in Famo.us could treat those side menus as a set of planes that could be manipulated in interesting ways and reduce the need for scrolling.

FORBES: Famo.us Pushes The Physics Of Searchable HTML5 Into A Whole New Universe

In the case of Famo.us, the innovation has been to bypass the webkit render engine by writing a new, higher-performance engine.

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