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The unfortunate thing about AMP from my point of view as a browser developer is that it disincentivizes me from making performance improvements. What's the poin
by pcwalton 10y ago
The unfortunate thing about AMP from my point of view as a browser developer is that it disincentivizes me from making performance improvements. What's the point in making something faster in a competing browser if Google is preventing developers from using that feature until it's fast in Blink?
Having a new gatekeeper in addition to the standards bodies that we have to get all new features by holds back the Web.
- MatthewPhillips 10y agoGoogle isn't a new gatekeeper, there's tons of documentation on their domain already that instructs developers to use/not use certain features for the sake of pagerank. Go look at PageSpeed for example. It would be great if we didn't have to worry about performance, I hope WebRender gets us there some day, please do continue your work and hopefully the fact that some subset of news sites aren't using features doesn't hold you back. In the meantime I'm going to avoid using with(), use requestAnimationFrame to prevent dom thrashing, put my scripts at the end of the body, and do all of the things maybe some day I won't have to do.