I'm fairly enthusiastic about what I have seen so far. >From a UI perspective, the idea of flexible tabs (with content that can be easily dragged to create new tabs) is very appealing to me, and I suspect the same will hold for core users.
As far as market share goes, I would assume that this particular product will primarily eat into Firefox's base of users, and less so into IE's base. On both the OSX and Windows Platforms, people who conscientiously choose to use Firefox are doing so with intent, either looking for improved features, performance, or perhaps because of plugins. These are the people who'd reach out and try a new browser when they already have a serviceable version on their machines. I'm using a mac as my default machine right now (no flame bate, this just happens to be what my company uses) so I'm a little bummed that an OSX version isn't going to be released today. But I'll certainly grab it and run it on my windows virtual machine to see how it runs. It'll be interesting to see how quickly it gets adopted by the developer community. Considering Google's reputation and tech cache', I don't imagine they'll lack for support. -Damon Dimmick User Experience Guy SitePen Inc. Alex Jones wrote: > Google plans to release a new browser soon, based on Webkit, but with a new > JavaScript engine, which is expected to be significantly faster than most > browsers. While there are a lot of questions about it and some interesting > discussion points, I am curious to see how, or if it changes the way we > design and develop Web apps. It will also be interesting to see how they > design the interface and flows within the browser, having stated that one > major goal is to streamline and simplify the UI. The beta Windows version is > to be released today, with Mac and Linux versions coming soon. > > Their announcement post: > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html > > An introduction to the browser in comic book form: > http://books.google.com/books?id=8UsqHohwwVYC&printsec=frontcover > > Cheers, > > Alex S. Jones | User Experience Manager > _________________________________ > Pluck / Demand Media > Direct: 512.519.3204 > 200 Academy Dr., Ste. 120 > Austin, TX 78704 > www.pluck.com<BLOCKED::http://www.pluck.com> > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
