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HTTP/2 Finalized
An anonymous reader writes: Mark Nottingham, chair of the IETF HTTP working group, has announced that the HTTP/2 specification is done. It's on its way to the RFC Editor, along with the HPACK specification, where it'll be cleaned up and published. "The new standard brings a number of benefits to one of the Web's core technologies, such as faster page loads, longer-lived connections, more items arriving sooner and server push. HTTP/2 uses the same HTTP APIs that developers are familiar with, but offers a number of new features they can adopt. One notable change is that HTTP requests will be 'cheaper' to make. ... With HTTP/2, a new multiplexing feature allows lots of requests to be delivered at the same time, so the page load isn't blocked." Here's the HTTP/2 FAQ, and we recently talked about some common criticisms of the spec.
The post even has counter-arguments and links to stuff. Are the 90's back again? Do I hear rave music, modem hand-shake tones and browser wars?
It's hard to take your knowledge in this matter seriously, since you call it HTML/2.
As a web developer, I can only imagine how much more pleasant my work would be if I asked my customer, "What versions of IE does this application need to support?" and the response was, "IE? What's IE?"
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So you don't having something like HTTP_REFERER again
Remember when getting Slashdotted meant that *another* site had problems?
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
The masses will switch as soon as they see "Did you know Facebook could be faster --> Click Here ---"
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The web is a different place than it used to be. Let me take you back to 199[345].
There were four kinds of Internet Users:
Group 1)
Has just arrived at your GeoCities page with its "optimized for Netscape" banner after following several webring links. They had only recently finished unboxing their Packard Bell and working out the relationship between the mouse and the cursor.
The were sitting in front of Windows 3.1x feeling a mix of awe and pride in their AOL dialing skills and terror they might some how break this machine having just spent nearly a months salary on it, because the kids teacher said they should get a PC. They were not about to download anything let alone install it. They still had the sakes from last time they tried something like that, and continue to wonder who this Gen. Protection Fault is and what he did to their computer.
Group 2)
Were practically experts by today's standards. They maybe had a 286 from a few years back and remembered some DOS commands. This and their command of cutting and pasting into notepad from "View Source" in Navigator has enabled them FTP their very own page to GeoCities that folks in group 1 are now viewing.
Group 3)
Has some professional or academic experience using a platform other than DOS and Netware. They are already frustrated back the lack of development the X11R2 edition of Navigator is seeing. Its fine they because all the stuff they think is really worth while is still available via BBS, and someone was good enough to install Lynx and internet gateway in case they do want to look at GeoCities. They had formed their opinion about what browser was good an proper and nothing was going to make them change, EVER.
Group 4)
Mac users, this group was small and mostly ashamed of themselves during this period. They clung to the belief their shitty platform was in someway superior to Microsoft's shitty platform running on Packard Bell (it wasn't). They really did not having anything to choose from besides Netscape, no matter what the banners indicated and they knew it.
In short things were nothing like today; well actually group 3 hasn't change much. Groups 1 and 2 merged; but the fear is gone. These people will run anything now. Ask them to put their password in so they can run NoIreallyAmATrojanLookingToStealYourOnlineBankingPassword.exe and they probably will if you promise them some extra Facebook likes on their posts or something.
Group 4) Is all self assured again. Some group 3 folks are joining them, although they still don't really mix at parties.
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