Current community consensus: 45% chance of Chrome browser on Mac by end of '08. See http://www.thestandard.com/predictions/google-chrome-mac-version-out-end-2008 R
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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