Google announced its own browser
Sep. 1st, 2008 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
In case you've missed the 15 other places announcing it, here's a cached link to the post - read the scanned comic, which is by Scott McCloud and explains the ideas behind it.
It's fascinating, and I'm very happy to have them enter the game - they're using WebKit, which is the tech underlying Safari, the Nokia S60 browser, Adobe AIR and Android, but they're building in some very interesting variations in design.
Hopefully this will split the web space even further - meaning that more stuff gets designed to the spec, and not to fit any one browser. I hope that they attract as much of an addon ecology as Firefox has. I won't be switching until they have AdBlock, GreaseMoney, FoxMarks, etc. equivalents, but that may not be that long...
It's fascinating, and I'm very happy to have them enter the game - they're using WebKit, which is the tech underlying Safari, the Nokia S60 browser, Adobe AIR and Android, but they're building in some very interesting variations in design.
Hopefully this will split the web space even further - meaning that more stuff gets designed to the spec, and not to fit any one browser. I hope that they attract as much of an addon ecology as Firefox has. I won't be switching until they have AdBlock, GreaseMoney, FoxMarks, etc. equivalents, but that may not be that long...
no subject
Date: 2008-09-02 06:23 am (UTC)http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html
Happy days!
no subject
Date: 2008-09-02 06:30 am (UTC)Ok, so that's just on Windows, but there's java Swing or whatever it's called (even if it is a little trickier/not quite so nice to use as I understand).
no subject
Date: 2008-09-02 08:29 am (UTC)It'll still be Javascript coding, which is _never_ going to be as easy to work in as WinForms. We are looking into our next-gen coding platform, but it's looking far more likely to be either Flash or Silverlight - available as either plugins for the web, or as standalone apps on the desktop. Tying ourselves into the kludge of dynamic typing and Asynchronous XML passing that is web-programming fills our lead geeks with horror, and rightly so.
no subject
Date: 2008-09-03 06:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-02 03:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-03 08:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-03 06:46 am (UTC)The thing I'm really not sure about is their all in one URL and Search bar: in Firefox and Opera I have about 20 search engines set up. There doesn't seem to be an easy way at this point to do something similar.
no subject
Date: 2008-09-03 08:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-03 08:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-03 02:09 pm (UTC)Except, you know, looking for porn and not crime.
no subject
Date: 2008-09-03 09:49 am (UTC)http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009139o-2000331777b,00.htm
no subject
Date: 2008-09-03 10:40 am (UTC)