Hi Brian,
yes 100% agreed, https is the future.
Im just hoping however that as it spreds more it also gets more support from the providers. Because in my case for example it is not so simple. I did check how difficult it would be to transfer my site to https and found that my provider offers no built-in solution and also only supports some certificates. In other words, for example Lets encrypt is not supported.
It turned out I would have to set it all up myself - which would be a problem because if you have to set it all up in the hosting manually you really have to know what you´re doing and Im in a position where I cannot afford having my website offline for several days/weeks and hope I will find a way of setting it up.
Also the certificates and the actual support for https as such is relatively expensive in case of my provider, the overall costs would be more than double of what they are now.
I of course agree that over time https should be a standard, but right now Im more hoping that as it gets more popular, there will be some direct solution in my hosting cPanel or at least support for the free certificates. Once that is available I will transfer to https. Until then it is unlikely, fortunately it is not causing any major issues because I don´t have any forms on my website or payment gates and the only thing that is affected is the fact that https users cannot use the "update checking" feature of Meteotemplate.
And I also make sure wherever possible, Meteotemplate supports https. The only scripts where this is not true is where the external source is only available as http - in such case there obviously is nothing I can do, but there is only a few of those and I replaced all the other links with https or implemented an alternative solution.