- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 08:08:27 +0200
- To: Mike Bishop <mbishop@evequefou.be>
- Cc: Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com>, Lucas Pardue <lucaspardue.24.7@gmail.com>, Brad Lassey <lassey@chromium.org>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Hi Mike, On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 02:34:49PM +0000, Mike Bishop wrote: > Personal opinion, not backed by any browser stack: Browsers have seen some > benefits from the current prioritization scheme when implemented by both > server and client. If you are able to implement it, you'll likely improve > your performance with browsers that currently send priority information. > When there's a new scheme, there will likely be some negotiation mechanism to > determine what the peers support. I doubt that the client with existing > implementations will quickly rip them out; your work would continue to be > leveraged while the replacement is being developed and by older browsers in > the future. That was indeed the sense of my question. Since I'm seeing some discussion around priorities, I was wondering if there's a general consensus around dropping the existing scheme or that it's often counter-effective. I'm not worried about doing it just for a few years, I was worried of doing it for nothing :-) Thanks! Willy
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