The killer feature is not the apps that can/will run on this platform.. its the 'task manager' feature. http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/google_chrome_screen_05.jpg
I appreciate that is going to raise an eye or two among the task & user centered design crowd. Today, managing pages isnt a major concern. If a specific site causes a problem you just restart the entire browser. As the browser becomes the OS for the cloud, managing individual apps and turning off the bad threads while keeping your other tasks safe is going to be critical to happy times online. Every operating system needs a task manager, its not a sexy feature, it is however an essential fact of life. This is the first proper instance in the browser domain and will change the 'average' user's mental model of the internet. It might possibly be a tad ahead of its time but tools become more sophisticated, and therefor more prone to problems, any browser a year or two from now without this feature will be at a massive disadvantage. This isnt 'just another browser', the new architecture goes much deeper than that. Jared summed it up. /pauric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
