| > How can it be standards incompatible if it works in existing standards compatible browsers? You really have no idea how the web works, do you? Browsers do a best effort to display any page. Even if the HTML is totally absolutely invalid, the browser will go out of its way to display at least something. The mere fact that something is displayed by a browser doesn't make it standards-compliant. AMP is standards incompatible because: - its HTML is not valid HTML 5 (just a few examples here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16467873) - whatever extensions to HTML 5 they bring are not a part of any HTML standard, past or present. And it doesn't look like Google is interested in making them a part of any future standard. > So hurray for you making a slimmed down page, but you're not the target audience, the huge number of other sites that have for years That's not the point, is it? Google will still penalise my page even if it's way slimmer than a standard AMP page. And since I cannot afford to run a Google-scale CDN, it will perform worse than an AMP page. So here's what we have in the end: - Google (and Google alone) decides what AMP will look like. There are no discussions with the web community at large or the standards committees. - Google (and Google alone) decides that only AMP pages end up in its own proprietary AMP cache. (Other "big aggregators" may/will also decide that only AMP pages can be in their proprietary caches) - Even if a web developer follows all of Google's performance tips (https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/rules) the page will still be penalised because it's not an AMP page (i.e.: not a page developed using whatever a big corp has decided, and running from a big corp's CDN/cache) - Even Google's own page speed tools tell you that AMP is not fast, and yet everyone (even 100% optimised slimmed down pages) is penalised if you're not running the page from an overpowered private cache A lot of mental gymnastics and total ignorance of how the web works goes into calling this an open, extensible web that will benefit everyone. |