How is it making the Internet worse for current users?

romanovcode · on Oct 17, 2016

Well do you really like the idea that when you go to some search result it effectively is opening an iframe to the website you're trying to go?

Or as a web developer you need to make sure to adopt to their stupid standards like renaming your img to amp-img and making sure it works in amp and non-amp so you'd be doing both?

I see it as complete bollocks.

fixermark · on Oct 17, 2016

> Do you really like the idea that when you go to some search result it effectively is opening an iframe to the website you're trying to go?

As an end-user or web developer?

As an end-user, I do not care. In fact, it seems that the AMP solution (which isn't an iframe so much as just serving the data from Google's cache at a Google URL) is faster.

> Or as a web developer you need to make sure to adopt to their stupid standards like renaming your img to amp-img and making sure it works in amp and non-amp so you'd be doing both?

As a developer, if I care enough about my user's experience to be bothering with AMP in the first place, I should be using a toolchain that makes it pretty straightforward to go from my meta-representation of my content to the render target (HTML / css, etc.). Because that toolchain should already be doing things like precompiling my CSS, condensing my image data, etc.