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Re:Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast by zdragnar on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:17AM (#18625326)
We're talking about two completely separate types of websites. Nobody said forms are useless. Web-based video editing was a hypothetical example. AMP wasn't really part of this discussion; presumably, lots of JS + PWA functionality in the hypothetical video editing example was the referenced useful functionality.

Take Google Sheets as an example. I don't know what the total download size is for the JS (certainly not 15mb), but it's an example of a JS heavy website where you wouldn't want to serve -> submit form -> serve cycle for every user input.

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Re:Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast by dvtrn on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:21AM (#18625343)
We're talking about two completely separate types of websites. Nobody said forms are useless. Web-based video editing was a hypothetical example. AMP wasn't really part of this discussion

This entire discussion started from an opinionated blog post that directly discusses AMP and it's performative nature on the web.

So yes.

It is.

You can't just invent a hypothetical that makes it easier to justify exceptions to the very topic the original blog post we're talking about here, of course exceptional things like resource-heavy, full-featured web apps are going to be outliers to lightweight payloads for web apps. For some reason I highly doubt those were the types of use-cases Google had in mind when AMP was released, so why are we even considering exigent outliers on this one?

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