[stupidcar]

No, Google were concerned about your websites. Your mobile websites which are so heavily overloaded with JS that basic interactions like scrolling don’t work.

Complaining that Google “broke the web”, when mobile developers have been making it slowly unusable—and unused—for years is pretty hypocritical. All the feature detection and backwards compatible changes in the world won’t help developers when their entire userbase has fled to walled gardens like Facebook. But I guess some people will resent anything that forces them to accept short term pain, even if it’s essential to their long term survival.

[disconnected]

So this is a good thing because the gatekeeper is Google instead of Facebook?

How's about adhering to standards? We gave Microsoft a hell of a time for not adhering to standards, but Google gets a free pass now? Because "performance"? (read: some negligible gains on some synthetic benchmarks)

Then let's stop pretending: let's scrap the W3C and go back to the good old days of "Best viewed on Netscape Navigator at 800x600".

[ko27]

Let's also complain about Mozilla because they are removing Flash support and thus breaking backwards compatibility. It's obvious that they are all 'evil'.

[jimktrains2]

Was flash a standard? Also, flash still works, it's a click away with a button in the location bar for sites that try to use it.

[nsebban]

Excellent point.

Hopefully someday a "lean webpages" movement appears.

[fenwick67]

It's here and it's basically the brutalism of the web, see Craigslist or the Drudge Report, or just look at Hacker News. These are not "web 2.0" designed but they are easy to use and well organized.

[what_ever]

Except that Hacker News website is just dumb, lacks a ton of functionality and gets very basic design wrong. Have you looked at that upvote button? Is this a website for ants?