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"Just fix the garbage" doesn't work; it's there because someone in favor of the garbage wanted it there, and the folks opposed to the garbage didn't have the au
by callahad 4y ago
"Just fix the garbage" doesn't work; it's there because someone in favor of the garbage wanted it there, and the folks opposed to the garbage didn't have the authority or influence to stop it.
...and that's the one thing AMP did right: it empowered developers to push back against the garbage by giving them a big ol' "Google says no" sign to wave around. Which is all kinds of problematic in terms of existential threats to the Open Web, but it did clean up that specific type of garbage.
How do we give anti-garbage folks that same power in a post-AMP world, without resorting to centralized authority?
- refulgentis 4y agoEveryone microfocused on Google and forgot AMP exists because Apple and Facebook created closed "AMPs" that were completely private. No one won here except some people with an axe to grind and actual web users. Hopefully web vitals can be a similar forcing function for dev teams with managers, leading to better quality for users.
- kadoban 4y agoGoogle fucked it because they wanted the control. They could have easily made the spec just "here's the subset of crap you can use, and here's the extra rules" and left it at that, but they just had to add all of the other nonsense to give themselves control. Without that it would have been fine. They could have still added in the part where they give pagerank bonuses to sites that comply, so there'd be an enforcement mechanism too.