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ampproject / amphtml

amphtml

The AMP web component framework.

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What it is

The AMP web component framework.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 7:02:50 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year146 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-10-07 14:41:30 UTC to 2023-02-21 19:56:36 UTC.

01020302015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 4 submissions, 10 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 28 mentions; 2 submissions, 26 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 27 mentions; 1 submissions, 26 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 30 mentions; 5 submissions, 25 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 0 submissions, 17 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 0 submissions, 17 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2023

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14410
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC28226
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC27126
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC30525
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17017
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17017
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312

From the project README

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Read the project’s introduction
AMP ⚡ ⚡⚡⚡ Tooling AMP is a web component framework for easily creating user-first websites, stories, ads, emails and more. AMP is an open source project, and we'd love your help making it better! Want to know more about AMP? amp.dev is the best place to learn more about AMP--and of course the site is made using AMP! For developers using AMP, amp.dev includes guides and tutorials examples reference docs example templates tools to make using AMP easier Having a problem using AMP? The amp.dev Support page has resources for getting help. Use Stack Overflow to ask questions about using AMP and find answers to questions others have asked. Let us know about bugs, and file feature requests to suggest improvements. AMP accepts responsible security disclosures through the Google Application Security program. Want to help make AMP better? docs/contributing.md has information on how you can help improve AMP, including ongoing participation through Slack, weekly design reviews, etc. We strongly encourage code contributions! We enthusiastically welcome new contributors to AMP even if you have no experience being part of an open source project. We've made it easy to get started contributing. Consider joining one of AMP's Working Groups, where most of the day-to-day work in AMP gets done. Other useful information AMP's release documentation provides details on how and when AMP releases new versions, including how to know when a change is live in a release. AMP's roadmap provides details on some of the significant projects we are working on. The AMP meta repository has information about the AMP open source project, including AMP's governance. AMP's code of conduct documents how all members, committers and volunteers in the community are required to act. AMP strives for a positive and growing project community that provides a safe environment for everyone.
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What Hacker News says

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rbinv·Nov 27, 2015
According to https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/builtins/a..., ads are injected as an iframe: "Ads are loaded like all other resources in AMP documents, with a special custom element called <amp-ad>. No ad network provided JavaScript is allowed to run inside the AMP document. Instead the AMP runtime loads an iframe from a different origin (via iframe sandbox) as the AMP document and executes the ad network’s JS inside that iframe sandbox." While I agree that many current ad scripts prevent websites from fast page loads, I don't really see the difference here (unless the actual ad network JS is modified to be faster, too - but then again, why do I need AMP for this?).
In Bringing you up to Speed on AMP
Zikes·Nov 4, 2015
It sounds like you're on the right track: AMP is a subset of HTML with restrictions on what can be on the page. The key is, if a page meets those restrictions then the page can be pre-fetched and pre-rendered to allow for an instantaneous display for the user. It is up to the browser to determine if a page is AMP-compliant (following the execution of JS of the AMP project itself, loaded with the page), and if it is not (because a publisher inserts non-compliant JS, for instance) then it will fail the pre-render and load as a typical page, negating the speed benefits that AMP purports. AMP does support ads, with a built in amp-ad element[0] that works with most major ad networks. It also includes several other elements for handling dynamic JS-driven media, but it's put together so that the media is sandboxed via web components and the bro
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wser can easily determine the dimensions on the page that the components will take up. [0] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/builtins/a...
In How Google’s AMP project speeds up the Web
cramforce·Oct 9, 2015
First of all this is not a Google-only project. There are many partners. See e.g. https://blog.twitter.com/2015/introducing-accelerated-mobile... <amp-pixel> supports all kinds of tracking. You just give it a URL. Ironically it does not work with Google Analytics but we'll fix that eventually. Most others should work. <amp-ad> currently supports these ad networks https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/builtins/a... We are super happy to add more. We want to support all networks. You suggest elsewhere there is revenue sharing involved, but that is not true. amp-ad just loads an ad. This is controlled by the publishers and and their agreement with the advertiser. Google only plays a role if it happens to be the ad network (or the advertiser) involved.
In A new approach to web performance
peterjmag·Oct 9, 2015
Two scrolling behaviors that I found odd on this page and on the NY Times example[1] on iOS: - You can't scroll to the top by tapping the status bar. - The scrolling momentum is different. There's less friction, as if you were scrolling through a list view (e.g. Mail). Anyone know how/why? I thought it might be some -webkit-overflow-scrolling trickery[2] with a full-size container div or something, but I don't see anything too weird like that. [1] https://amp.gstatic.com/v/mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/us/r... [2] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/momentum-scrolling-on-io... EDIT: Turns out there is some -webkit-overflow-scrolling trickery going on[3]. But again, why? [3] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/77d9f31263866e56a...
In A new approach to web performance

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