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Am I the only one who read this piece as a screed against having web standards at all? "The web is a messy, complicated place.... The end result is an enormous
by thw0rted 7y ago
Am I the only one who read this piece as a screed against having web standards at all? "The web is a messy, complicated place.... The end result is an enormously diverse and anarchic free-for-all where almost no two websites use the same code."
In any other article I would expect the next paragraph to start with "That's why we're introducing Fribble, a framework for structuring your data so that blah the blah...." But, somehow, the author makes out that well-structured data and appropriate use of semantic tags is a ploy by this one evil company to secretly profit from your work.
I'm sure there are well-reasoned arguments against AMP, ways it could be improved or competing ideas for how to encourage fast page loads, expose content in a machine-friendly format, etc etc, but I haven't heard any of them in this article. It boils down to "We don't want your rules, maaaaannn" and it frankly isn't worthy of HN's attention.