I haven't seen anyone explicitly say this yet, so I will do so:
Google Chrome is not a web browser, it just happens to be shaped like one. Chrome is Google's entry into the web application platform wars, currently being waged by Adobe (FLEX) and Microsoft (Silverlight). The horse Google is backing is the (oft maligned) one currently in the lead, DOM/Javascript, Chrome is an attempt to ensure that DOM/Javascript doesn't lose that lead for reasons of speed or stability.
Chrome + Gears can deliver stand-alone and web-enabled apps. Next out of the gate from Google, I expect some debugging / IDE tools to support DOM/Javascript development in Chrome, ala Firebug+.
Saturday, September 06, 2008
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Paul:
Good catch on the larger issues at play and just not how it "innovatively" handles tabbed browsing. Your thoughts are not unrelated to some other "whither the Internet" stuff I've run across recently e.g.
http://tinyurl.com/5rg653
Which is relevant to me since we'll have spent 3-man days in the past week dealing with IE-specific JavaScript issues. In 2008, those kind of inefficiencies are unacceptable. Working under small-company constraints, I need to decide where to allocate resources: considering the mickey-mouse hoop jumping alluded to above, the price of a Flex IDE seems pretty reasonable.
Will the Flash player be the future of the Internet? Will it ever get on the iPhone? Will Google go another direction? I sure as hell don't know. But I do know Flex/Flash can address plenty of challenges in the near-term that are currently costing me real money.
Brian Timoney
Innovation in the browser is a good thing. Safari, Firefox, and Chrome are really competing with each other in terms of performance and functionality. I expect that IE will have no choice but to improve on performance in order to stay relevant and not lose any more mind share.
The next year should be fun...
Very interesting take. I buy it.
And yet it *is* a web browser. The more stuff that we publish on the Web, the more stuff we access on the Web, the more money Google makes.
So Chrome is a RIA guarantee for Google's javascript investment. Too bad we now have to worry about cross framework issues on top of cross browser problems. If Chrome is successful we get to have one more problem child to deal with. So far it fails on ASP Menus, Silverlight ve:Map components, DeepEarth, and even GoogleMap Earth mode.
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