The web is full of buttons and badges to express support for every conceivable purpose - standards, memes, OSes and web software all vie for space in the sidebar.
However, in all my aimless wandering of the web, there is one button that was missing. It's strange, because it would seem the most popular and universally applicable button. What button is this? The Hypertext Transfer Protocol button (IETF RFC 2616).
An HTTP badge is surely the one button we could all display on our web sites. Long after XHTML is passé, and Flash is just a distant memory - HTTP will still be the glue that holds the web together.
I suppose the reason there is no HTTP button, is because HTTP is like the air we breath - simple, vital and unnoticed (until we run out, of course.) Maybe not having a button is the highest complement a protocol can receive. To be so useful and essential that no one could conceive of a world without it, is every protocols dream.
Still, if I ever picked badges for a site, the first one would have to be an HTTP button. So above is an attempt at an Antipixel style HTTP button, playing off the IETF logo (bonus RFC 2616 button below). The buttons are free to use and modify. Comments, links, and new buttons welcome.
