If you haven’t heard the news this week Google is planning on speeding up the web with their new internet protocol called “ SPDY” to replace the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) which has been the standard which allowed browsers to load one page on the internet it wasn’t meant for loading all the css , images , video etc. That’s were the SPDY protocol would come in, Google announced web pages to load up to 55 % faster.  Though Google did state that they aren’t looking to completely over throw the HTTP protocol but to have SPDY play a role in addition to the HTTP.  As of of now it will only be supported in Google Chrome, which will make it run much faster though it is still a possibility  that it could be implemented  as a web standard.

If your interested in downloading the released source code for the prototype google chrome can be downloaded

HERE

Google also stated that the SPDY protocol isn’t starting from scratch and still uses HTTP headers but it will overide some parts like connection management & data transfer formats. As for the wide support as a web standard  google would have to work with the major browser companies to support the SPDY protocol , convincing the big players like Mozilla Firefox which shouldn’t be hard to jump on the bandwagon the challenge would be switching over Microsoft Internet Explorer to support this new improved protocol.

More work still needs to be done to perfect and expand this project but it is something to look forward to in the coming months.

READ THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCMENT OFF GOOGLES BLOG

MORE LINKS:

http://code.google.com/speed/

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