I'm all in favor of Chromium using web interfaces instead of local code. As I've said before in a thread on Chromium-Discuss, if Google is creating a browser to maximize the potential of the web, and encourage web developers to make more complex applications, then the said Google browser should be leading the charge by embracing the web as a platform. If you're going to invest so much in V8 to make AJAX faster, why not use AJAX and an online interface to do many things for the browser itself?
I'm in favor of seeing Bookmarks and Themes presented in "Web-app" format, running powerful Javascript on par with Gmail or Google Docs, with effects as stunning as some of the ChromeExperiements. In other words, show off what the browser can do, as well as promote the use of the web as a platform. However, the reason I'm a little skeptical is that I'm afraid Google may come under fire. How will the Theme Gallery know my most used themes without authentication. If you make the theme gallery pull the info from the browser history, you may be accused of violating privacy rights, and if you force users to sign-in to the gallery to access the feature, you make the process more tedious and if you use a Google account, you risk looking monopolistic. Maybe I'm just being too paranoid, and maybe you already have an ingenious programming solution, but that was my motivation for suggesting the internal page. On Aug 11, 9:23 pm, Peter Kasting <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Meok <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just to add my two cents worth. Even though there is a full resource, > > I still see a need for users to be able to keep their favorites easily > > accessible. It;s the same philosophy of having a New Tab Page even > > though you can pull back your most visited sites from the bookmarks. > > As we've already (sort of) said on this thread, it seems like having your > MRU themes is useful, but it's appropriate to do as an element of the theme > gallery itself, not as a separate local page. > > PK --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
