Interesting: build on WebKit, the Mac system-wide browser subsystem.
And Chrome isn't available on the Mac!? Sigh.
Actually, several parts of the cartoon make a LOT of sense. Browsers
*are* tending towards being an application platform. Once the DOM was
standardized and accessible via javascript (and the XMLHttpRequest
object dragged out of the closet), the browser itself, not just xhtml/
css, had moved the entire web infrastructure towards a much more
standard platform. But the web apps need to be multi-threaded etc ..
so several OS level issues started creeping in.
But its all likely to be (yawn) reduced to Microsoft vs Google yet
again.
-- Owen
On Sep 6, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Robert Holmes wrote:
> So I've been playing with Chrome, Google's new browser. This comic is
> uncomfortably close to my experience:
> http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080906
> BTW, Google have provided a comic book that describes some of the
> under-the-hood techie decisions they made during Chrome's
> construction. An
> interesting read: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html
>
> Robert
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