Hi Gang, An interesting review of Chrome here due to its comparison to IE 8 which also has a multi-process engine: http://tinyurl.com/5erfxy
Also, there has been some press on Firefox 3.1 which has a new JS rendering engine that they claim is a lot faster than Chrome. If nothing else, having Chrome in the mix is sorta like what Google did to the Frequency auction earlier this year. They just entered the fray to keep people on their toes, eh? I'm starting to side w/ Andrei in my mind. I like where he is going because it seems to me like all the other arguments are really conjecture. We really don't know how users are going to react to all this. It feels VERY technical to me. Someone pointed out in one blog that Google clearly is targeting developers, but as Andrei points out for good or for bad Developers are already doing Open HTTP-based rich applications on existing platforms. But here is something i've noticed. My Gmail is at worp speed right now. While loading Gmail seems to take a similar amount of time (I'm not about to stopwatch it), but once open, the interaction time is REALLY noticeable. Here is the big miss from Chrome that I had in my head as the obvious "seller" of the browser to me and this was confirmed to me coming out of a Silverlight seminar today. The big miss is Google Cloud App integration. putting in tools for easy offline and cross-app base use of tools like Gmail, GMaps, GDocs, GTalk, GCal, etc. would be the real win and to be honest would make the "market share" issue almost go away. the secondary miss in my mind is that there is no add-on eco-system. I don't know how long I'll use Chrome w/o my handy-dandy TinyURL creator, Weather footer, del.icio.us bookmarks, etc. otherwise, in the end ... it is really just a browser. I type a url or I click on a link and I go to a site and click on my links and buttons. They work functionally exactly the same and there is nothing offered new here from what I can see. Ubiquity from Mozilla to me is a much bigger deal to me. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
