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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everyt... by SquareWheel on Saturday January 12, 2019 @07:55PM (#18894283)
>News sites are hypertext, also known as formatted text, and not web-apps or programs which download and render websites.

No, there are many thousands of websites that render their content dynamically on the client - news or otherwise. Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit all make use of client-side rendering (and all provide news services).

>not deliberately hide content from users

Your browser also "deliberately hides content". It waits a few hundred milliseconds before triggering a paint, just to avoid content from jumping around. AMP pages do the same -- unless you break the mechanism of course.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everyt... by monadgonad on Saturday January 12, 2019 @10:35PM (#18894883)
> Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit all make use of client-side rendering (and all provide news services)

Oh, come on. You and I both know that those are social media apps which act as news aggregators, and are not themselves sources of textual news articles. jimbo1qaz was clearly talking about the latter.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everyt... by SquareWheel on Saturday January 12, 2019 @10:49PM (#18894932)
What is the meaningful distinction between news websites and non-news websites? Client-side rendering is just a technique which isn't specific to any industry.
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