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I don't blame Google for AMP. The industry could have come together to offer a better experience and speedier page load, but of course they didn't and preferred

by remir 9y ago

I don't blame Google for AMP. The industry could have come together to offer a better experience and speedier page load, but of course they didn't and preferred having countless scripts and poorly optimized ads and that translated into a poor experience for users. This created an opportunity for Google to come in and offer this solution and now we're stuck.

lucideer 9y ago
To the contrary, one of the most frustrating things for me about AMP is Google's contributions to "the slow web". They're not in any way the cause, not even a majority contributor, but look at Google's influence on frontend web development, from providing drop-in-with-zero-thought script CDN links, popularising the @font-face standard through their Web Fonts service to the point of its use being expected and non-optional in many web design teams, Google's terrible Page Speed tool favouring large complex pages over small simple ones, and the general cavalier "hey just paste this snippet of JS into your HTML, don't worry about what it does" attitude that things like GA have helped to make the norm.