There's been a lot of talk about SPDY lately, with two major browsers adopting it and the updated protocol being proposed as the basis for the upcoming HTTP 2.0. Still, SPDY usage is small, that much is clear, the only other major website outside of Google to support it being Twitter.
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2 May 2012
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Google SPDY is in a very good position. It's poised to become the foundation for the upcoming HTTP 2.0 standard and is already supported by Chrome and Firefox. Google is using it extensively on its servers and the Apache module which enables SPDY is now stable.Wanting to show off SPDY's improvements, Google... |
1 May 2012
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While HTTP 2.0 is still far off, browser makers are continuing to improve support for SPDY which seems poised to serve as the basis for the next-generation protocol. Google Chrome and more recently Firefox support SPDY and so does the Android browser. But that doesn't mean much if there aren't that many we... |
19 April 2012
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Google is now ready to move on to the latest draft version of SPDY, the third version, and has started testing support for it in Chrome. About 10 percent of Chrome users will have SPDY/3 support enabled in their browser. Google servers have started supporting both the current SPDY/2 and the new SPDY/3 last month.
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17 April 2012
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Microsoft and Google may be going head-to-head in plenty of areas and there's quite a bit of healthy and some unhealthy competition between the two companies. But it seems that, while the people with the loudspeakers (PR) are throwing punches, the engineers at both companies can come to terms on the practical ma... |
2 April 2012
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A faster web is on everyone's mind. Google's SPDY, an updated HTTP protocol, is picking up steam and Microsoft wants in on the action as well so it's come up with its own improved HTTP which it dubs "HTTP Speed+Mobility." The timing of the announcement is not coincidental, the Internet Engineering Tas... |
26 March 2012
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SPDY, the alternative to HTTP proposed by Google is slowly gaining strength. Granted, it's got a long way to go, but Twitter has started adopting it and using it by default, with browsers that support it.SPDY, as the name implies, was devised to speed up internet connections. Google is working on several fronts ... |
10 March 2012
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After an unwanted delay, SPDY support is finally moving forward in Firefox. The latest Firefox 11 Beta includes support for the updated HTTP developed by Google and already supported by several sites, including most Google sites.SPDY, as the name suggests aims to improve the performance of websites by optimizing HTTP... |
4 February 2012
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Google is working on all fronts to make the web faster. It's constantly optimizing its websites and services to squeeze out every last inch of performance, but it's also working on improving the underlying architecture of the web. One project that attempts this is SPDY a version of the HTTP protocol built w... |
27 January 2012
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Mozilla has announced that the latest Firefox nightly builds now have support, disabled by default, for the SPDY protocol. Initially developed by Google, SPDY is an improvement of the age old HTTP which aims to cut down on connection times by taking a few shortcuts and optimizing some steps.
It's not a new prot... |
5 December 2011
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Amazon's Silk browser, for the upcoming Kindle Fire uses a lot of tricks and cutting edge technologies to make the web as fast or even faster on the Kindle Fire tablet as with a regular desktop browser.Amazon has its vast and powerful Elastic Cloud Computing infrastructure to and its connections to all the major... |
29 September 2011
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In late 2009 Google introduced the SPDY protocol, its take on improving the tried and trusted HTTP with a speedier alternative. The controlled experiments proved quite encouraging, but Google hasn't said much since. It hasn't stood still though, Google continued to work on the implementation and now Strange... |
13 June 2011
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There's no doubt Google is a speed junkie. It wants everything to be faster and its doing anything to make it so. It built its own web browser, Chrome, just for this, and it's even building a new operating system, Chrome OS, with the same idea in mind. It obsesses about its search engine to squeeze every l... |
13 November 2009
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