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> once a protocol becomes so embedded and fractured over multiple implementations, it becomes impossible to change. Yet HTTP2 exists.
by dane-pgp 5y ago
> once a protocol becomes so embedded and fractured over multiple implementations, it becomes impossible to change.
Yet HTTP2 exists.
- stormbrew 5y agoI don't think I'd characterize HTTP as having fractured in anything like the way XMPP has, which seems to have deliberately chosen a wild-west approach to extensibility vs. HTTP's more modest evolution. Until we got http2 and http3 in a span of 5 years, but that's because a big megacorp forced it to happen -- and even then those are backwards compatible with http1.1.
- lmm 5y agoHTTP2 is a new protocol, not a set of extensions to HTTP.