Scott, you bring up some interesting points. Food for thought. I think the main motivator here is that Google feels strapped by technologies they do not control. Their cloud project is stymied by browsers with other considerations or legacy (read as antiquated) architectures.
I think their big sell in the end which might help their uptake is something that FireFox doesn't share which is direct application integration. If I had a browser that took all of the Cloud apps (Gmail > Docs) and fully integrated it this might be a hugely compelling force to reckon with. Especially if said applications ran significantly better (more stable and higher performance and possibly with MORE functionality). I mean this is part of the GEARS project team (which felt odd to me at first). Andrei, you mention that other browsers are handling performance. I'm far from an insider here so I just don't know, but the way Scott explains it to me in this comic, it feels like (and heck marketing is good marketing for a reason) like they are taking the browser in a new direction under the hood. The multi-process/threaded piece feels significant to me in its juxtaposition to what the piece is calling the way other browsers work. Is this hype? Why? The next interesting part is the OSS nature of it all. This feels like a cost center to Google to support their other endeavors much like IE for MS. So I could see (especially since they are still financially committed) how Chrome and Mozilla might eventually merge a bit in the future. Now that being said, the last point is the mobile piece. It seems that this browser being on WebKit is really about mobile and not about desktop at all (possibly/long term). The mobile browser space has no clear winner and if they can get this together and take on iPhone Safari, it might really hep the Android cause. This is an area where IE and Mozilla have failed, IMHO. Anyway, those are my thoughts for now. Can't wait to download and play ... Please!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32535 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
