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Google is Giving up Some Control of the AMP Format (theverge.com)
Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, has been a controversial project since its debut. Critics say AMP is a Google-specific project and it is creating a walled-garden, which would only serve Google's best interests. On its part, Google has insisted that AMP's mission is to benefit the open web, and that many who contribute to AMP are non-Googlers. On Tuesday, Google announced that it would be giving up some control of how the code behind AMP is managed. A report adds: It plans to move the AMP Project to a "new governance model," which is to say that decisions about the code will be made by a committee that includes non-Googlers. Until now, final decisions about AMP's code have been made by Malte Ubl, the tech lead for the AMP Project at Google. A model with a single person in charge is not actually all that rare in open source. That person is often cheekily referred to as the BDFL, or "benevolent dictator for life." Ubl's been that person for AMP, but, he writes, "we've found that it doesn't scale to the size of the AMP Project today. Instead, we want to move to a model that explicitly gives a voice to all constituents of the community, including those who cannot contribute code themselves, such as end-users."
[...] Google has already signed up non-Google people for the Advisory Committee, which will include representatives from The Washington Post, AliExpress, eBay, Cloudflare, and Automattic (which makes WordPress). Ubl says that it will also include "advocates for an open web," including "Leonie Watson of The Paciello Group, Nicole Sullivan of Google / Chrome, and Terence Eden." Of course, as anybody who's taken part in a committee knows, it's neither a fun solution nor a guarantee that a single company or person won't dominate it. But it's a step in the right direction, and Google is encouraging people to comment on the plan at the AMP Contributor Summit on September 25th.
[...] Google has already signed up non-Google people for the Advisory Committee, which will include representatives from The Washington Post, AliExpress, eBay, Cloudflare, and Automattic (which makes WordPress). Ubl says that it will also include "advocates for an open web," including "Leonie Watson of The Paciello Group, Nicole Sullivan of Google / Chrome, and Terence Eden." Of course, as anybody who's taken part in a committee knows, it's neither a fun solution nor a guarantee that a single company or person won't dominate it. But it's a step in the right direction, and Google is encouraging people to comment on the plan at the AMP Contributor Summit on September 25th.
Are AMP hosted by google? If so, it's holding the website hostage to google spyware, therefore, really nothing has changed.
There are outside contributors big enough to maintain it when google decides to drop it.
Yet takes years to earn back. Google has lost too much trust of late. While this effort is a step in the right direction, it looks like too little, too late.
My biggest conplaint with AMP is that it doesn't work. For example, I dearch and get a hit on resdit and click on the result. I get an amp page that looks like reddit, but I am not logged-in, and images don't work, and the link to see the users other posts isn't a link, it is just text. Sometimes I get a special AMP header with an icon that takes me to the actual page. Other times I have to hand edit the URL to dind the actual page. Basically, Google search results are broken for some sites. I think they should be concerned about that!
Why do you deny genocide?
Creating your own little standard on the side and leveraging your market saturation to promote it.
is this for real? Could it be any more transparent?
You want to control peoples computers, and what programs run, and where they connect to - because you want to control people's ideas. Because you want to control people, and this is just a few more baby-steps to making sure GOOOBLE is #1 in the chain of influence.
Now tell us how AMP is for the benefit of humanity and how it "makes synergy more lubricious and accelerates intershekel transactions to your margin"
Fuck Google and all the faggots who work there.
Is this just a Google approved version of HTML?
It doesn't seem to have anything extra over it.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
Package is 10mi from my house. Arrived in town yesterday. Was 50mi from town the day before. Pristine blue skies as usual, early fall temperatures and the package was not delivered due to a fake "weather delay." Almost as bad as USPS.
Pot smoking retards.
heyheyheyheyhey
I would've gotten your package there in a straight line without going backwards.
Now not wandering for a bit sideways is not covered.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
Stop linking me to these awful versions of the page you are trying to link me to!
I am on a desktop for crying out loud!
...to drop it by google?
... itâ(TM)s still AMP and itâ(TM)s still shit.
Google search popping up AMP pages convinced me to ditch Google search and switch to DuckDuckGo.
Recently Iâ(TM)ve noticed website links in the Google maps app using a pop-up window with AMP content (and thus broken web browser functionality). AMP annoys me more than the shitness of Apple maps annoys me. It looks like Google is trying to convince me to ditch their maps product now and use Apple maps. What a result Google, well done!
Only used by sites because it is guessed this might improve google ranking.
Killing you nazi faggots isn't genocide, it's a good start towards America being great again.
Ubl's been that person for AMP, but, he writes, "we've found that it doesn't scale to the size of the AMP Project today."
Yeah.. tell that to the Linux Kernel Developers Mailing List....
bickerdyke
Subject says it all.
Need to shove a coc gently inside and then use that to leverage control of the product. People always fall for my coc.
I was expecting the story to be the diver's lawsuit against Elon Musk for his pedo tweet.
That person is often cheekily referred to as the BDFL, or "benevolent dictator for life." Ubl's been that person for AMP, but, he writes, "we've found that it doesn't scale to the size of the AMP Project today. Instead, we want to move to a model that explicitly gives a voice to all constituents of the community, including those who cannot contribute code themselves, such as end-users."
"Plus, you know, that 'For Life' thing painting a bullseye on my back."
fine those n1ggers, quickly
Instead of this whole "governance body" thing, how about we just all forget that AMP ever was a thing and move on.
oh good, maybe that means that amp is on its way out.
What the open web really needs to strong competition among web browsers. If you'd like to support the "open web", the best thing you can do is stop using Chrome.
Thanks to AMP pages, when I need to visit a news site, first I need to click on the link, and second I need to click on "more info" above and then click on the full URL. When I need to go back, I need to click on the back button twice. That's five clicks to visit a web page, and then return back to the search engine results. How is this an improvement?
I refuse to look at plain AMP pages because they don't render the original faithfully (links to forums are missing, etc). AMP also makes a pain to search through the web browser history because they all register in history as "google" instead of the original site name.
If you hover over a link that leads you to a PDF or AMP page, don't click it.
Hovering shows the URL. The URL does not imply a document's media type (PDF vs. HTML), and it certainly does not imply what subset of HTML is used. Technically, AMP is a subset of HTML5.
Or avoid websites hosting content you don't want.
This becomes difficult when the majority of the results on the first page are on an unwanted domain or in an unwanted format.
Unless you mean "in general", in which case an ad blocker, java script whitelist addon, and due diligence is the best we really have.
All AMP pages contain boilerplate that adds an anti-FOUC delay, which times out after 8 seconds if AMP's JavaScript engine fails to load. A JavaScript whitelist add-on would just cause this delay to run its maximum course more often.
APK will be giving up his ass at the Pilot Travel Center off of I81 in Syracuse NY nightly. No charge if you bareback him.