The awesomeness that is Google has figured out a way to speed up the web browsing world. The guys at Chromium have a white paper page on it and it has the potential of cutting the page load times of websites to just 1/3 of the normal TCP load time. Chrome and Firefox 11 already have implementations that use this and can be enabled for testing. Firefox has announced its version 13 will have it enabled by default. Google’s services and ads as well as Twitter already have SPDY implemented on their servers. Microsoft stated that while it’s a good idea it’s doesn’t speedup the web for applications such as those in the mobile world. Fixing this at the operating system would probably be a better solution but for the sake of time I feel SPDY will be a quick solution to the problem. I just hope we come up with a standard that iOS, Android and the Microsoft’s winsockets can all adhere to.
Project info/white paper:
http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper
A mod is being built for Apache but it’s not in beta yet:
http://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/