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Google Moving to Relinquish Control Over Accelerated Mobile Pages

posted by chromas on Tuesday September 25 2018, @06:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the committees-always-do-it-better dept.

takyon writes:

Google may be relinquishing control of its controversial Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project:

The project has been led by Malte Ubl, a senior staff engineer working on Google's Javascript infrastructure projects, who has until now held effective unilateral control over the project.

In the wake of all of this criticism, the AMP project announced today that it would reform its governance, replacing Ubl as the exclusive tech lead with a technical steering committee comprised of companies invested in the success in the project. Notably, the project's intention has an "...end goal of not having any company sit on more than a third of the seats." In addition, the project will create an advisory board and working groups to shepherd the project's work.

The project is also expected to move to a foundation in the future. These days, there are a number of places such a project could potentially reside, including the Apache Software Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation.

The AMP Contributor Summit 2018 will take place at Google in Mountain View, California on September 25 and 26, 2018.

Previously: Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web
Google Acquires Relay Media to Convert Ordinary Web Pages to AMP Pages
Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email
Google Attempting to Standardize Features of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
Google AMP Can Go To Hell

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @08:46AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @08:46AM (#739597)

    Remove the required artificial eight second delay penalty for those choosing to block ampproject.org.

    Discussed here:
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16730905 [ycombinator.com]

    Horses mouth:
    https://www.ampproject.org/docs/fundamentals/spec/amp-boilerplate [ampproject.org]

    AMP HTML documents must contain the following boilerplate in their head tag. Validation is currently done with regular expressions, so it's important to keep mutations as minimal as possible. Currently, allowed mutations are: (1) inserting arbitrary whitespace immediately after the style tag opens, and immediately before it closes; (2) replacing any space in the snippet below with arbitrary whitespace.

    <style amp-boilerplate>body{-webkit-animation:-amp-start 8s steps(1,end) 0s 1 normal both;-moz-animation:-amp-start 8s steps(1,end) 0s 1 normal both;-ms-animation:-amp-start 8s steps(1,end) 0s 1 normal both;animation:-amp-start 8s steps(1,end) 0s 1 normal both}@-webkit-keyframes -amp-start{from{visibility:hidden}to{visibility:visible}}@-moz-keyframes -amp-start{from{visibility:hidden}to{visibility:visible}}@-ms-keyframes -amp-start{from{visibility:hidden}to{visibility:visible}}@-o-keyframes -amp-start{from{visibility:hidden}to{visibility:visible}}@keyframes -amp-start{from{visibility:hidden}to{visibility:visible}}</style><noscript><style amp-boilerplate>body{-webkit-animation:none;-moz-animation:none;-ms-animation:none;animation:none}</style></noscript>

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Pino P on Tuesday September 25 2018, @12:42PM (1 child)

    by Pino P (4721) on Tuesday September 25 2018, @12:42PM (#739638) Journal

    What would be a better way to prevent the flash of unstyled content [wikipedia.org] from distracting readers?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @07:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @07:22PM (#739825)

      How about making a CSS a normal, small file instead of putting half of page's mechanics and ads there?
      And of course dumping these neglected CMS which are theoretically open source, but nobody cares are they running OK or not - especially WordPress likes to put PHP errors into CSS blocks.
      I don't know, maybe users are dumb, but I usually re-configure a default font in my browser to read things easier. This way I also cancel loading most sites early because I'm not interested in ads, but in contents I look for.