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Re:Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast by osrec on Thursday December 06, 2018 @11:24PM (#18625131)
Not really - imagine if you're looking to create a fully featured video editor, complete with 3d effects and whatnot. It could well exceed 15mb to deliver all the required functionality.
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Re:Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast by dvtrn on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:14AM (#18625315)
Shouldn't this be a native desktop application versus foisting it onto web clients? If we're talking "fully featured"?
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Re:Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast by osrec on Friday December 07, 2018 @01:30AM (#18625585)
This is where the paradigm shift is coming. Your past experiences say it must be a desktop native app, but I believe things like WASM, web workers etc will allow such things to run comfortably in the browser.

I really do believe people will build for the browser more than they will for the desktop because it's a more universal platform.

I can even imagine a future where, for the majority, the only native app you have on your machine is a browser, and everything else is some variant of a PWA. I really feel this will happen very soon.

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Re:Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast by ForHackernews on Friday December 07, 2018 @05:39AM (#18626532)
This sounds like a nightmare.
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Re:Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast by Spivak on Friday December 07, 2018 @11:22AM (#18628934)
Why? I can't wait for this world where everything can run on Linux.
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