> Eventually the megacorp browsers will drop real HTTP/1.1 support from their browsers for QUIC based transport That's unlikely and risky. Let's just face the

> Eventually the megacorp browsers will drop real HTTP/1.1 support from their browsers for QUIC based transport That's unlikely and risky. Let's just face the fact here: people already tried three times to make a better HTTP protocol and still feeling unsatisfied, so certainly they'll going to make HTTP/4 and 5 etc in the future. If all future HTTP versions must be identified via some kind of probing (say DNS or Alt-Svc), I would bet HTTP/1.1 will be kept as a baseline for compatibility. That means more versions there are, more important HTTP/1.1 will become. Plus, to an user, what's the difference between these versions? It's not like some important web feature can only work on new HTTP protocol, but not the old ones.