Re: [WikimediaMobile] Some interesting stuff from Google

2015-10-09 Thread Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
I've been checking this out and I have a few thoughts I'd like to share (basically, what Bryan said): - This feels like google's attempt to be again the hub for a big part of the web, to gather more information and data for it's ad business. True, anybody could spin up a amp cache system,

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Some interesting stuff from Google

2015-10-09 Thread Brian Gerstle
Can we start a proposal to make all mobile websites look like 8-bit video games? That should be pretty performant ;-) Humor aside, just want to +1 this discussion, has been very insightful for me both in terms of making me aware of this proposal by Google and breaking it down pretty thoroughly. T

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Some interesting stuff from Google

2015-10-09 Thread Luis Villa
On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Toby Negrin wrote: > Hi Luis -- > > I honestly don't see a lot of difference between Google, Twitter and > Facebook, since they are all ad supported entities with a fiscal > responsibility to track their users and sell the data. Apple's a bit > different on the sur

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Some interesting stuff from Google

2015-10-09 Thread Jon Katz
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > If you really wanted to, you can subset what you send to mobile browsers > and get the same benefits (provided you use a really good CDN). I think this announcement + the transcoding work Google is doin

[WikimediaMobile] EnableMobileModules hook in MobileFrontend removed

2015-10-09 Thread Florian Schmidt
Hello all together, with this e-mail I want to inform you, that, with change I20e46165fb76[1], we removed a long living Hook in MobileFrontend, called EnableMobileModules. It was added to empower extensions to add modules to OutputPage only, if the page was recognized as requested for a "mobile