Cool. Pine On Oct 8, 2015 8:05 AM, "Jon Katz" <jk...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> FYI. Google just announced an open source project to create a speedier > framework for mobile browsing. It might be worth looking at what they're > doing: > > From: > > http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/10/08/035200/googles-effort-to-speed-up-the-mobile-web?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed > > > Google has officially taken the wraps off its AMP project — Accelerated > Mobile Pages <https://www.ampproject.org/> — which aims to speed up the > delivery of web content to mobile devices > <https://www.ampproject.org/how-it-works/>. They say, "We began to > experiment with an idea: could we develop a restricted subset of the things > we'd use from HTML, that's both fast and expressive, so that documents > would always load and render with reliable performance?" That subset is now > encapsulated in AMP, their proof-of-concept. They've posted the code to > GitHub <https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml> and they're asking for > help from the open source community to flesh it out. Their conclusions are > familiar to the Slashdot crowd: "One thing we realized early on is that > many performance issues are caused by the integration of multiple > JavaScript libraries, tools, embeds, etc. into a page. This isn't saying > that JavaScript immediately leads to bad performance, but once arbitrary > JavaScript is in play, most bets are off because anything could happen at > any time and it is hard to make any type of performance guarantee. With > this in mind we made the tough decision that AMP HTML documents would not > include any author-written JavaScript, nor any third-party scripts." > They're seeing speed boosts anywhere from 15-85%, but they're also looking > at pre-rendering options to make some content capable of loading > instantaneously. Their FAQ <https://www.ampproject.org/faq/> has a few > more details. > > Google blog announcement: > > https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/introducing-accelerated-mobile-pages.html > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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