Kill Google AMP before it kills the web

Post by PrimHelios » Sun, May 21, 2017, 12:49 AM UTC

cbsmith wrote: post #135

coldtea wrote: post #128

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> "publication independence"? Really? The man who is famous among other things for supporting the most closed ecosystem there is around: iOS, where a single company decides what apps are worth publishing and wish ones doesn't. First of all, that's an ad hominem. If publication independence is important, then it remains important whether Gruber is hypocritical about it or not. Second, one might want apps to be curated…

Pointing out a seeming contradiction in an advocate's advocacy is not an ad hominem.

Post by sctb » Sun, May 21, 2017, 12:52 AM UTC

tambourine_man wrote: post #24

Original link was submitted, flagged (why?) and vouched for. Tried to submit again and, instead of up voting the previous one, it got resubmitted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14381919

Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 21, 2017, 12:53 AM UTC

MBCook wrote: post #202

cramforce wrote: post #192

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Sorry, but there is some irony there. We were as surprised as anyone. I do like the new inertia much better. Allows for much faster scrolling similar to Android.

I don't think there's any irony here. You deployed something that worked horribly on iOS, you didn't offer a way to opt out, and when someone else put in a fix for your terrible UX that just happens to change everything else to the way your stuff currently works you use it to gloat and a guy who pointed out how terrible your UX was. Honestly this whole thing (AMP and your comment) come off arrogant as hell to me. I l…

Post by sctb » Sun, May 21, 2017, 12:55 AM UTC

merraksh wrote: post #184

Original Register link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider...

Post by askafriend » Sun, May 21, 2017, 12:56 AM UTC

cramforce wrote: post #225

askafriend wrote: post #217

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Is that really Apple's stance? I find the scrolling to be the #1 reason why I bounce from AMP pages. I would hate for them to make this a system wide behavior.

Yeah, I don't care either way. But Safari should have the SAME scroll inertia for every scroll context and ideally it is the same as used for native apps.