WordPress Sites Now Support Google’s AMP to Make Mobile Pages Load Faster

Post by ajsalminen » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 8:23 PM UTC

Zikes wrote: post #37

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> The project is open source and open to contributions from anyone. The project is exclusively governed by three Google employees, listed at https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/GOVERNANCE... , all contributions are at their discretion. All contributors must sign a legally binding licensing agreement with Google which includes a patent grant, per https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/CONTRIBU…

I don't see what makes it different from any other open source project. Of course it's going to have technical leads and core committers, it's not like you can go force a PR merge on jQuery trunk any time you please. I'm aghast that you would even suggest such a thing. And CLA's aren't fun, but they're hardly new, either.[1] If you don't like that it's Google, that's fine, but at least be honest with yourself about i…

Post by dang » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 9:04 PM UTC

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dang wrote: post #33

There are two articles about AMP on the front page right now, this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11167478 . Which is better?

I actually found both useful. Both target different audiences and provide different perspective on the issue. I probably wouldn't click through to 11167428 if I didn't use WordPress; whereas I wouldn't click through to 11167478 if I had already seen the AMP announcement last year ("I know about AMP; when will there be stuff I can download/install/play with?").

Post by nissehulth » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:23 PM UTC

currysausage wrote: post #35

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What "default template" would that be? As for the "lang" attribute, it is set to the language chosen when WordPress was installed.

Oops, sorry, I was looking at the HTML of the theme previewer instead of the theme itself. With regard to WordPress, only my "XHTML friends network" point remains valid. Concerning web development in general, I have seen way too much cargo cult boilerplate, too many hardcoded lang attributes, etc.

Post by tn13 » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 12:53 AM UTC

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AMP erects walls around the Open Web and enshrines Google as the gatekeeper. Want to embed content from another site? Great! You can choose from , , , , or . Building an advertising startup? Hooray! I hope you're one of the dozen whitelisted ad networks that allows. In Russia or China? Maybe Google will deign to implement and if we're sufficiently humble. This is not the Web I want.

The project is open source and open to contributions from anyone. Every single time this comes up the project contributors have said that they will gladly modify to support any network they can. They're also constantly developing new components to fill in the gaps for other embeddable services. You want ? Submit a PR! Open an issue! It's open source! And please, please tell me what's wrong with using e.g. ? It's just…

Post by Zikes » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 1:22 AM UTC

sliverstorm wrote: post #47

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The project is open source and open to contributions from anyone. Every single time this comes up the project contributors have said that they will gladly modify to support any network they can. They're also constantly developing new components to fill in the gaps for other embeddable services. You want ? Submit a PR! Open an issue! It's open source! And please, please tell me what's wrong with using e.g. ? It's just…

The whole point of AMP is... Right. Looking at this whole thing humorously, it seems like the uproar is over AMP is developers getting angry at a tool designed to prevent them from shooting themselves in the foot, for removing their ability to shoot themselves in the foot :)