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Not long ago, we looked at Famo.us, the folks behind a creative HTML5/JavaScript presentation engine that promised to put complex, powerful, 3D-charged UIs within the reach of mere mortal developers.

Now Famo.us has hatched a plan to use its technology to make Adobe PhoneGap, the popular but problematic cross-platform mobile app development system, obsolete.

The idea behind Famo.us was simple: Boost HTML5 performance by using the 3D-accelerated transformation effects in CSS3 to move objects. Couple that with a physics engine written in JavaScript, and you have a library to create slick UIs in HTML5, both 2D and 3D. Those UIs are also markedly less hidebound by the lagging or hesitation that normally plague HTML5, especially on mobile platforms.

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