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> But I cannot believe that the mistakes were caused by them just not being aware of how networks work or, worse, failing to talk with somebody that did As som
by KaiserPro 3y ago
> But I cannot believe that the mistakes were caused by them just not being aware of how networks work or, worse, failing to talk with somebody that did
As someone who was part of the rollout of HTTP2 for a $large_website, I can confirm that "this will harm mobile performance" was outright and flatly rejected. This included people who were our reps on the w3c. I just had to sit there and wait for the real world metrics to come in
"multiplexing will remove bottlenecks!"
"benchmarks prove that its faster!"
"you just don't understand how TCP works"
"the people at google are very smart, what do you know?"
"server push will reduce latency"
etc etc etc.
We even had the graphs of page size over time (going ever up) and average usable bandwidth (not keeping up, especially on mobile) None of that mattered until the rollout had a real world effect on our performance.
- azinman2 3y agoSo what was that real world effect?
- KaiserPro 3y ago5-25% increase in loadtime (median), which caused a drop off in ongoing activity. Users also complained.
- pi-e-sigma 3y agoIt doesn't matter. You can provide the numbers when asked by the proponents of HTTP2/3 'do you have proof of your claim??', they will just turn around and say your real world data is not valid or that they need peer-reviewed article in Science.
- foofie 3y ago> (...) they will just turn around and say your real world data is not valid or that they need peer-reviewed article in Science. This sounds like a bullshit conspiratorial excuse. If you have real world data and you aren't afraid of having peers looking through it, nothing prevents you from presenting it to peers. So where is that data? Instead, you just have vague unsupported unbelievable claims made by random people in the internet, as if that's any way to decide over policy, and any faint doubt raised over that claim is faced with conspiratorial remarks complemented by statements on how everyone around OP is incompetent except him. I will go as far as to claim OP's assertion is unbelievable, to the point of sounding like bullshit. It's entirely unbelievable that people designing protocols for a multinational corporation whose bread and butter is stuff done over TCP connections were oblivious to how TCP works, and the most incompetent of them would bother to design the first major revision of HTTP. Unbelievable. But hey, some random guy online said something, so it must be true!
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- foofie 3y agoYou wrote a wall of text about a link, but you failed to paste a single link. Enough.
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