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Google are very good at pumping out "standards" that fill short term commercial goals while in the meantime making a fragmented pig's breakfast of the rest of t
by _wmd 10y ago
Google are very good at pumping out "standards" that fill short term commercial goals while in the meantime making a fragmented pig's breakfast of the rest of the web. Aside from HTML 5 (which I'm coming to accept was justifiably hostile to the W3 process), I have yet to see anything from Quic, SPDY, WebSockets, and now AMP that demonstrates any kind of long term thinking.
WebSockets for a long time (is it still true?) could not run over a SPDY/HTTP 2 connection. SPDY itself had multiple fundamentally incompatible versions in the wild before things settled down (they changed how negotiation was implemented), WebSockets and SPDY duplicate many of the same concepts (yes, really), Quic seems utterly ignorant of the early history of the Internet and the importance of flow control, and now AMP.
AMP it seems to me, is a standard designed around the current era shortcomings in the implementation of Google Chrome (and similar browsers). It's hard to get more myopic than that.