> Chrome is being promoted as a web browser.
Not by Google. You need to read up on what the Google principals have been saying in various interviews and Levy's Wired account. > AIR is explicitly trying to be an application environment and explicitly > *not* a web browser. You can literally embed a web "browser" inside an app, desktop or otherwise. That's what folks do with WebKit on Mac OS X. How much of what you believe to be browser functionality you want to expose at the UI level is up to you. You can entirely mimic a browser (make it behave like Safari) or just show the viewport and/or selected UI controls/behaviors. And you can have other regions that don't traditionally belong in a browser interact with what's inside the viewport. Just like AIR. So this browser vs. something-else juxtaposition is all in the mind of the designer/developer, something Chrome is trying to further blur. In 2008, you cannot build a platform whose "browser" viewport is incapable of handling the full gamut of what's out there. Hence the WebKit base. Both for Chrome as well as AIR. But can one application environment handle both and innovate in both > simultaneously? Not that I've ever seen. > I don't see why not. > If Chrome is indeed intended to be a web application platform for the > future, then Google will need to resist ever adding more "browser" features > to it that will hold it back, like say RSS feeds inline. Like I said, you need to read the Wired article to get the color on Chrome team's approach to "throw out everything not absolutely necessary" approach. be a browser or be an application development platform. > That's not necessarily a binary decision. The path is an app platform that has a fully-capable browser embedded. Outright remove the Back and Forward buttons from the product. I'd love to > see them try that! That's precisely the direction they are pursuing by eliminating the "chrome" when a "tab" is turned into an "app". -- Kontra http://counternotions.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
