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It's just sad that enormous amount of developer resources are being wasted into a tech which should have been used for the standard web instead. It's not just t
by asadkn 7y ago
It's just sad that enormous amount of developer resources are being wasted into a tech which should have been used for the standard web instead. It's not just the developer hours put into the AMP project itself. Thanks to all the SEO blogs, every site out there has to wasted resources into an AMP implementation.
The days of maintaining two versions of a website - a "mobile version" (in AMP) and the normal - are back again. Takes me back to the WAP days (not saying it's that bad). Then there are those that are going AMP-only - getting locked into AMP and all the excessive-yet-limited JS baggage (try building a full-fledged site and you will have a lot of AMP JS). JS compilation and execution isn't cheap on phones either. I sure as hell can make faster-rendering sites without that AMP bloat that can compete despite their prefetch.
This proprietary tech isn't helpful and is a massive dev resource sink. And let's not kid ourselves, there were many better ways for Google to prioritize and encourage speedy websites.
- sverige 7y ago>And let's not kid ourselves, there were many better ways for Google to prioritize and encourage speedy websites. That's not the goal, though. Better tracking of your social graph is the goal of AMP. It's like alt.test to see how fast your link propagates, and where it goes. Useful information for influencing you and others.
- lern_too_spel 7y agoWith signed exchanges, they won't have any information about when people share AMP cache links, so that conspiracy theory doesn't work.
- madeofpalk 7y ago> wasted into a tech which should have been used for the standard web instead. But its all just javascript, html, and css. It is the open web. They're also taking bits, like Signed Exchanges, to the standards bodies to make then "standard web" as well.