SPDY may be technically sound but...
Mozilla Corp: Wholly 0wned Subsidiary of Google Inc
Mozilla Corp: Wholly 0wned Subsidiary of Google Inc
What's so bad about companies making it open, free and open source, thus contributing to a better Internet experience for everyone? No one limited SPDY to Google sites - Microsoft and Yahoo are free to implement it for their servers and enjoy browsing speedups with Chrome and (soon) Firefox 11.
Is Mozilla acting in the interest of the Open Web or was this a bargaining chip with their $300M default search provider deal?
Traffic is harder to debug. Google continues to act like it owns the Web.
These are disadvantages for the world.
Bring on the downvotes of the naive Googlers! This place was getting boring anyway...
Is Mozilla doing the best thing for the Web or further cementing the current browser landscape? Will it be better when I have to write my crawlers to work with HTTP 1.1, SPDY, and HTTP Next?
My objection to this turn of events is almost entirely related to the behavior of Google and their search deal with Mozilla. Mozilla has compromised their principles again and again for Google and it is accelerating.
I'm tired of Google's doublespeak and lies about "Open Web" and open standards. If SPDY takes off, we will all have to think about supporting it and if it's built correctly that will be fine. I seriously have my doubts.
It would have been much less suspicious if the second browser to adopt SPDY was Safari or IE. Right now, it looks like Google is essentially bribing an "independent" browser vendor to implement their half-baked standards so they can turn around and claim "it's a web standard!".
It's like 1999 but now with corporate protectorates!