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AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages

By : O'Donoghue
Book Image

AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages

By: O'Donoghue

Overview of this book

Google introduced the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project to give mobile users lightning-fast response times when accessing web pages on mobile devices. AMP delivers great user experiences by providing a framework for optimizing web pages that otherwise would take much longer to load on a mobile platform. This book shows how to solve page performance issues using the mobile web technologies available today. You will learn how to build instant-loading web pages, and have them featured more prominently on Google searches. If you want your website to succeed on mobile, if you care about SEO, and if you want to stay competitive, then this book is for you! You will go on a mobile web development journey that demonstrates with concrete examples how to build lightning-fast pages that will keep your visitors on-site and happy. This journey begins by showing how to build a simple blog article-style web page using AMP. As new concepts are introduced this page is gradually refined until you will have the skills and confidence to build a variety of rich and interactive mobile web pages. These will include e-commerce product pages, interactive forms and menus, maps and commenting systems, and even Progressive Web Apps.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
14
Actions and Events
16
amp-bind Permitted Attribute Bindings

Laying out elements in AMP pages

In the last chapter we briefly saw how to fix validation errors with amp-img by adding layout="responsive" to the image element, but there wasn't much explanation about what was happening. When we added the layout attribute, we were tapping into AMP's powerful layout system.

The AMP-HTML layout system

AMP's layout system is key to reducing rendering and scrolling-jank. AMP uses a static layout system that relies on a set of attributes to define the layout and sizing of elements. These are layout, width, height, sizes, and heights. With these attributes, AMP is able to efficiently calculate the layout and size of each element even before anything is fetched from the...