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You can disable it for now, but there are already some companies building their entire websites in AMP like independent.co.uk. A better solution than AMP would
by JoshMnem 7y ago
You can disable it for now, but there are already some companies building their entire websites in AMP like independent.co.uk.
A better solution than AMP would be to only consider raw page speed, and then use a neutral schema markup for whatever extra features Google wants to display in Google Search.
- fjsolwmv 7y agoWhat's wrong with AMP websites? AMP is a fast subset of HTML. That's different from using Google's AMP cache.
- detaro 7y agoA "subset of HTML" that by specification is required to load Javascript from a central CDN, and by specification will let you wait multiple seconds before it shows anything if that JS doesn't load, even if perfectly usable content is loaded already.
- SahAssar 7y agoA subset wouldn't require you to load js to use built-in features like forms. A subset would just remove features or elements, which would make the whole load a js lib to make it work superfluous. AMP is not a subset of HTML. It's a superset of a (badly defined) subset of HTML.
- JoshMnem 7y agoAMP is an unethical scheme by Google to appify and control of the Web. There are many articles about it. Here are some other pages: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+amp&t=canonical&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+amp&t=...