The best practices of HTTP1 are harmful in a HTTP2 world

Re:The best practices of HTTP1 are harmful in a HTTP2 world by omgitstom on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @04:16PM (#9140815)

I'm having a hard time understanding the argument.

Let's say I have a site that uses best practices for HTTP/1.1, and loads within 2 seconds without caching. It sounds like the article saying that switching to HTTP/2 will make my site slower.

What I've read so far in other places is that the site should by default (no modifications) be faster, it is just wont be optimized until I remove all my hacks for HTTP/1.1

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Re:The best practices of HTTP1 are harmful in a HTTP2 world by mordocai on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @04:25PM (#9140870)

I am far from an expert but from what I understand a HTTP/2 site with HTTP 1.1 'hacks' for performance will:

Run slower than the same site with the HTTP 1.1 'hacks' removed

Run faster than the same site serving via HTTP 1.1.

In most cases.

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Re:The best practices of HTTP1 are harmful in a HTTP2 world by Eyas on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @04:21PM (#9140850)

Right, the practices are 'harmful' in an HTTP/2 world, meaning, in that world, these practices harm you rather than help you. You are correct in assuming that your site and its resources would still load faster in HTTP/2.

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Re:The best practices of HTTP1 are harmful in a HTTP2 world by omgitstom on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @04:17PM (#9140819)

As a follow up question, has anyone thought / worked through support both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 simultaneously?

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