Google Chrome embraces the faster, more secure next-gen HTTP 2.0 standard

More than five years after Google announced its SPDY application-level protocol, the company is mothballing the effort [blog.chromium.org]. Nearly a year from now, in early 2016, Chrome will dump SPDY completely as the new HTTP/2 standard (also known as HTTP 2.0) becomes the predominant successor to the HTTP 1.1 protocol used today.