Well transmitting text never seemed really very much interesting.

http was nice because it was easy for software programmers to write apps that could work over http, because no binary protocol was involved: reading ASCII strings is never complicated. It was good for a growing industry.

Now most browsers are open source, why can't the IETF work out a binary protocol ? Bittorrent is binary, and it's awesome and it's used. Why can't any browser work out a binary protocol ? Truly dynamic pages over the network ? Why not ? I'm sure some software already does that. Make one open source, make it work on firefox or chrome, I guess things would start to light up.