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by yeezul 2818 days ago
I for one absolutely agree with you that the web has gotten too bloated, especially news websites, and I salute your initiative for "debloating" your blog. This is a path that more of us should follow.

I think Google's AMP project is a step in the right direction, but it seems to me that it's not adopted enough.
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SahAssar 2818 days ago
AMP is a step in the wrong direction as it requires you to use js to do stuff that you can do in normal HTML on a non-AMP site.

A step in the right direction would be a proper subset of html/css without requiring more JS to load

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lvoudour 2818 days ago
Curious as to why you think AMP is a step to the right direction.
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giovannibajo1 2818 days ago
Because the pages load fast and are not bloated, which is the point of this article.

Unfortunately Google has bound it to other questionable practices like hosting on their domain, but it’s still a step on the right direction. We need something like that plus a way to cache it on the edge servers in a portable fashion so that any CDN like Cloudflare could pick them up.

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yorwba 2818 days ago
AMP is not bound to hosting on Google, Bing now has an AMP cache as well: https://blogs.bing.com/Webmaster-Blog/September-2018/Introdu...

And since you mention Cloudflare, I searched a bit and found https://www.amp.cloudflare.com/

There are problems with AMP, but Google exclusivity is not one of those problems.

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