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If the website's performance is a promise of the performance of the application, I don't really feel tempted to try it.

I'm using the latest Firefox Aurora release and I am getting very sluggish scrolling and slow loading on the main page. I wish this trend of gigantic slide-able pictures and animated transitions would stop. Yes, it feels like I'm browsing through a tablet/phone app, but I'm on a desktop, I'd love to have a desktop experience.

Sorry for the rant, the application itself seems nice though.

EDIT: also please don't force people to register and login to try the app, if I can't just get on the page and try it without giving away some private data, I don't really feel tempted to try it at all.

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Nah, that is related to GSS stylesheets on the site making use of the matrix3d part of CSS. Unfortunately lots of (expecially Linux) 3D drivers are not exactly up to the task.

Edit: as for required login, that isn't needed to play with just the examples.

Photo booth: http://app.flowhub.io/#example/7804187

Animated clock: http://app.flowhub.io/#example/7135158

Canvas pattern generator: http://app.flowhub.io/#example/1319c76fe006fb34c9c9

I can play 3D videogames with lots of advanced shaders and even develop my own, perform very demanding computations on my 8-core machine and watch HD movies and stream from the web, yet I can't easily view a simple home page from the internet?

Is this the state of technology in 2014?

If you are indeed on Linux, you may have to enable hardware acceleration at chrome://gpu . Last time I checked it was not enabled by default on Linux.

edit: Ack, sorry, just re-read parent and you are using Firefox. I do not know whether they have similar issues with 3D acceleration on linux.

Also I am not saying the website couldn't perform better, you have a valid point there.

Yeah, it is a shame. I'm getting some checkerboarding there too as my Chromebook Pixel can't always keep up with rendering the surfaces when scrolling quickly.

Funnily enough my (a lot slower) Nexus 7 scrolls much better. That is what points me towards 3D drivers.

But anyway, shall we talk about Flowhub itself? ;-)

Welcome to the "open" web! It is build on "new" technologies such as HTML, CSS and JS.

> also please don't force people to register and login to try the app, if I can't just get on the page and try it without giving away some private data, I don't really feel tempted to try it at all.

I meant to fix that before launch, but now you can launch examples from the home screen before logging in. https://github.com/noflo/noflo-ui/issues/220

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