[ExI] New Browser: Google Chrome

[Mike Dougherty]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Really totally off topic for anything, but Google's new open source
> browser, Chrome, is awesome. I would normally find a new browser to be
> a very dull thing, but this one is major cool. Noticeably faster than
> IE and Firefox, very slick, everything seems to work well, cool new
> geek tools hiding away in there.

I am asking people if they think it'll ever become version 1.  Gmail
is still technically beta for example.

It's a great concept, but I hope it continues to mature because I
already miss mouse gestures and I don't like the fact that chrome (or
gchat) windows do not honor the Nvidia multiple-monitor controls.
(which is unpleasant to remote from a single monitor at home to dual
monitors at work)

I think most of my early-adopter criticism will go away if/when enough
people enhance the chrome framework with the tools that are currently
missing.

Did you catch the piece of the comic that discusses
javascript-compiled-to-bytecode?  That sounds to me like Java's "write
once, run anywhere" model actually being feasibly implemented.
Javascript that runs interpreted in older browsers or compiled &
cached in capable browsers is a nice example of progressive
enhancement that leads to a graceful degradation.