actually, IMHO, it is something to "worry about" but in a good way.
if you're a big YUI / JQuery / Spry user then you may be heartened by what Google has done in two key areas: - each tab now runs in it's own memory space, so if one goes stupid the user can kill that process without locking up the whole browser (I'm looking at you, Firefox). They're also keeping track of all the pointers to all the objects so garbage collection can me more efficent - Google have created their V8 javascript virtual machine (still unsure why they didn't join in with Mozilla and Adobe with Tamarin) which compiles the javascript to machine code, not interprets it line by line. Google's timing is impeccable: after Firefox 3 is released and while IE8 is in beta (and too late to seriously change now). Which prompts me to think, with what Chrome (as a re-worked Webkit) brings to the table it may turn out that the only people who care about IE8 are those locked into Microsoft offerings because of things like HTC controls or intranet use. mind you, it's not all clear sailing. Do you really want Google to intimately know your browsing habits? meh, my 2c barry.b On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Mark Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Technically it's not another browser to worry about, as it uses > webKit, which is the same rendering engine as Safari... .so if you are > testing for Safari (which you should be anyway), then you know it's > okay. > > Mark > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Dawesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Google's launching a webkit/gheko advanced web browser... sometime >> soon... >> >> Head over here for more info... >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome >> > >> > > > > -- > E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > W: www.compoundtheory.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
