An interesting take on AMP versus PWP

I don’t know enough about AMP to evaluate this, but thought I should pass it on.

Thanks,

Alan

(an attempt to quote twitter in email)

https://twitter.com/fakebaldur/status/714941460416741376



Baldur Bjarnason
‏@fakebaldur

> An interesting side-effect of AMP's basic model is 
> that anybody can run an AMP CDN and, because behaviour 
> is well-defined, customise it
> 
> If you have an app/platform & would like to control 
> the performance or representation of AMP pages linked 
> from it, you could do your own CDN
> 
> That includes anything from aggressively pre-loading 
> linked AMP pages to tweaking how its custom elements 
> behave.
> 
> By sub-setting HTML and limiting JS behaviour to a 
> strictly defined set of custom elements, Google has 
> effectively created portable web docs
> 
> Which basically makes most of what the W3C's Digital 
> Publishing Interest Group is working on, a modern 
> XHTML2 to Google AMP's HTML5

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