Why is it said that HTTP2 is a binary protocol?

Question

I\'ve just read a article about differences between http1 and http2, but the main question that I have is when it says that http2 i

Answer 1

I believe the primary reason HTTP/2 uses binary encoding is to pack the payload into the fixed sized frames. Plain text cannot fit exactly into the frame. So binary encoding the data and splitting into multiple frames would make lot more sense.