Cool.
Pine
On Oct 8, 2015 8:05 AM, "Jon Katz" <jkatz(a)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-t…
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-page…
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