The title seems to imply HTTP 1.1 is already dead/abondoned, when in fact almost nobody except Google is supporting SPDY. Firefox doesn't support it, but if it

The title seems to imply HTTP 1.1 is already dead/abondoned, when in fact almost nobody except Google is supporting SPDY. Firefox doesn't support it, but if it's open enough there's a chance they might add support for it. MSIE support is far away and I wouldn't but any bets on it being supported any time this year. If SPDY is supposed to be more than a http-option (i.e. "beyond http 1.1") all clients need to support it. That's far from the case today. Given that last time I heard about it was quite some time ago and little has changed, I would say a better title would be "Http-times: SPDY is still around, still looking for friends". Just because it comes out of Google's door doesn't make anything a guaranteed success and I outside HN's usual Google-praising sphere I haven't ever heard a single geek mention it. I'm not saying it's dead either, but at this point it seems to have gathered very little interest and momentum.