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Just in case you haven't heard, Google is making a new web browser that has "borrowed" from FireFox and Web Kit. They're calling it "Google Chrome" and I'm expecting a perpetual beta. 
According to all the reports I've found, it should be available for download tomorrow.
They put together a little comic to explain what it is and what it isn't a la some of the things I saw MS do with the release of Office 2007 - http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
And here's the official blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html
It looks interesting, and I'll probably download it and take a look. As much as I like competition in the market, IMHO there's too many players in this market to make testing easy. What I'd love to see is some sort of intermediary "reference" browser that works as the W3C intended, giving us something to test our pages against and giving the browser makers something to benchmark against... I can dream.
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According to all the reports I've found, it should be available for download tomorrow.
They put together a little comic to explain what it is and what it isn't a la some of the things I saw MS do with the release of Office 2007 - http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
And here's the official blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html
It looks interesting, and I'll probably download it and take a look. As much as I like competition in the market, IMHO there's too many players in this market to make testing easy. What I'd love to see is some sort of intermediary "reference" browser that works as the W3C intended, giving us something to test our pages against and giving the browser makers something to benchmark against... I can dream.
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oh great, yet more spy ware<
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Originally posted by HuwRThat was my first thought.<
oh great, yet more spy ware
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I'll reserve judgement vis-a-vis Google's data aggregation until I see reports that confirm/deny any data exchange between the two. I have a funny feeling the browser itself is more a tool to make the Google Gears platform more appealing.
Having said all that, I like a lot of what I'm hearing about the architecture and design of the browser itself. Here's hoping Microsoft et al steal a few ideas.<
Having said all that, I like a lot of what I'm hearing about the architecture and design of the browser itself. Here's hoping Microsoft et al steal a few ideas.<
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i looked at all the stuff in the first link in your post, and to be honest it sounds like IE8 
you can bet your life that it will be data gathering for google, that is after all there reason for being, they already control >80% of the advertising revenue on the web, it woll soon become googlenet not the internet. and people worry about microsoft.<
you can bet your life that it will be data gathering for google, that is after all there reason for being, they already control >80% of the advertising revenue on the web, it woll soon become googlenet not the internet. and people worry about microsoft.<
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The much ballyhooed "InPrivate" tab definitely sounds like it was grabbed from IE8; and the seamless browsing for web apps sounds like Mozilla Prisim; and the smart bar sounds like a fusion of FireFox 3's original feature and IE8's take on the same feature; and a few other items sound like they were taken from either Opera, Fx, and/or IE. The comic itself is reminiscent of what MS did with the Office 2007 release.
I think the separation of each tab into its own process sounds like a good idea on paper, I'll wait 'till I see it in action as lately I've seen too many ideas that look good on paper that don't pan out well in practice. Ditto for the sand-boxing and the V8 JavaScript Engine.<
I think the separation of each tab into its own process sounds like a good idea on paper, I'll wait 'till I see it in action as lately I've seen too many ideas that look good on paper that don't pan out well in practice. Ditto for the sand-boxing and the V8 JavaScript Engine.<
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