[locallost]

thanks for that post. that and some other resources convinced me then that my time is better spent elsewhere.

in the post it says less then .1% connections in Chrome receive a push event. some people will always try out the cutting edge, but the fact it hasn't spread after several years is a pretty good indicator that it's not producing the expected results.

I don't know why things that are "nice to have, but not essential" and at the same time not really working need to be kept, just because they're in a standard. if it was essential I'd view it differently, but in this case I hope it gets dropped.

[vbezhenar]

Web was always about backwards compatibility. You should be able to contact with HTTP web server deployed in 1995 from modern web browser.

Server push is different, because it's supposed to be an invisible optimization, so it could be dropped without anyone noticing. But most things are not invisible.

[cesarb]

> You should be able to contact with HTTP web server deployed in 1995 from modern web browser.

AFAIK, a web server deployed in 1995 would probably be using HTTP/0.9, and I think modern web browsers don't support any HTTP older than HTTP/1.0 anymore.