[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-04 Thread Isaak Malik
The Google browser will undoubtedly become very popular amongst the Google users and as web designers it's our job to make websites compatible with every recent browser. However, as Google mentions themselves, if your website is compatible with Safari 3 it should autmatically also be compatible

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-04 Thread Erik Beeson
However, as Google mentions themselves, if your website is compatible with Safari 3 it should autmatically also be compatible with the current Chrome version. Sort of. It's not an issues of a new renderer to support (WebKit, same as Safari/Android), it's an issue of a new JavaScript engine

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-04 Thread Jörn Zaefferer
Most browser incompabilities or bugs that jQuery is concerned with are in the DOM implementation. The actual JS engine is pretty consistent across browsers. I don't know whether the DOM implementation is part of V8... I guess not. If its not part of Webkit either, odds are good that Chrome will

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-03 Thread Diego A.
I love it! No non-sense web browsing. I'll still keep firefox for development of course, but I'll definitelly recommend it for general use. 2008/9/2 Giovanni Battista Lenoci [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is out! :-) -- gianiaz.net - web solutions p.le bertacchi 66, 23100 sondrio (so) - italy +39 347

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-03 Thread Andy Matthews
@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chris thatcher Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 6:59 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced I hope it's enough for microsoft to retire ie6, but frankly I worry a little bit about the gas giant

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-03 Thread Guy Fraser
Andy Matthews wrote: Microsoft can't retire IE6 any more than Ford could retire 1996 Ford Explorers. It has to be the user's choice. What's a better suggestion is for WEBSITES to stop supporting IE6 (coding CSS and JS fixes and workarounds) and encourage people to upgrade on their own. I

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-03 Thread Ryan Zec
I don't think chrome his wanting to compete with firefox. From what i read, google as already put a lot of money into firefox so it would make no sense to build a browser to directly compete with it. From what people say, chrome is to compete with MSIE as a simple and easy to use browser, which

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-03 Thread chris thatcher
I hope it's enough for microsoft to retire ie6, but frankly I worry a little bit about the gas giant that google is becoming. I can't see any reason they couldn't simply have given some funding to mozilla and kept providing their services as is, except... to hone their tracking of my browser

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-03 Thread Jonathan
For those interested in more information on Chrome, checkout their comic book here: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ It does a nice job of explaining some of the thinking behind Chrome. I have been playing around with it since yesterday and it's great! Super fast and super simple.

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-03 Thread Guy Fraser
Ryan Zec wrote: I don't think chrome his wanting to compete with firefox. From what If they were to compete with FF I think the dev community would start voicing some serious concerns. Not in google's best interests.

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-03 Thread pedramphp
Dear folk ,for more information please check this Article which John Resig performed http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-performance-rundown/ it says Chrome has been powered by V8 javascript engine , and JOhn and his partners are working with TraceMonkey and developing it , he believe it is much

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-03 Thread Bil Corry
Jonathan wrote on 9/3/2008 8:54 AM: For those interested in more information on Chrome, checkout their comic book here: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ It does a nice job of explaining some of the thinking behind Chrome. I have been playing around with it since yesterday and it's

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-03 Thread Aaron
I wouldn't use this browser myself since their is no need since we already goti IE7 and firefox as a popular web browser. Would this give us more headaches as a web designer??? I mean we know that IE was trouble it different ways. If we have google coming into the game and they get popular we

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-02 Thread Guy Fraser
Geoffrey wrote: The browser is being written with WebKit, the open-source engine at the core of Apple's Safari and Google's Android. The browser is also getting a new Javascript virtual machine, V8. It's said to be a better solution for complex and rich Web applications--it should yield

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-02 Thread Giovanni Battista Lenoci
Is out! :-) -- gianiaz.net - web solutions p.le bertacchi 66, 23100 sondrio (so) - italy +39 347 7196482

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-01 Thread Karl Swedberg
But since it uses Webkit, it shouldn't be too much different from Safari, right? --Karl Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com On Sep 1, 2008, at 10:44 PM, Geoffrey wrote: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10029974-2.html?tag=mncol;txt Looks like we

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-01 Thread Joel Birch
I use a bunch of Google apps and really like them so I'm looking forward to seeing what this browser has to offer. Webkit is a great start - I'm not worried about having to develop for it. No Mac version to begin with though :( Joel.

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-01 Thread Geoffrey
Not sure what the part about the new javascript virtual machine means. The browser is being written with WebKit, the open-source engine at the core of Apple's Safari and Google's Android. The browser is also getting a new Javascript virtual machine, V8. It's said to be a better solution for