Of course they are selling to the developers right now- it's a first beta release. They get us on board, then by the time they have a stable product ready to launch they can start marketing to the masses. I honestly think they are more likely just trying to raise the bar for everyone, though- lead by example and all of that jazz.
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Nasir Barday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Google has done the bare minimum to show what their cool engines and > architecture can do. The main contribution Google's Chrome brings to the > table is the stuff Under the Hood (TM). This is primarily a software > engineering innovation that has spill-over benefits to us as designers, > just > as a "doubled frontside data bus" or "predictive branch > optimization" enables us to do more, even though most of us don't really > care how it works. > > Chrome strikes me as a "reference implementation" that browser vendors, > engineers, and designers alike can use to evaluate the underlying > technologies and see if they make sense for integrating into their apps > (Browsers, desktop apps, Web APIs, etc). Further, each of these innovations > is a bandaid on a much larger problem-- web browsers were never intended to > do the things we do with RIAs. > > And maybe this is a bit off-topic and troll-worthy, but speaking as a > software engineer (past life), AJAX is a series of hacks. Perhaps we can > take Chrome's V8 engine, process management, and malware/spyware thwarting > in the interim to pacify ourselves while we wait for the shakeout of a > robust, cross-platform, high performance toolkit un-messed with by your > evil > empire of choice. > > All Pollyanna-like, > - Nasir > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Michael Dunn FoolishStudios www.foolishstudios.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
