[BNM] Chrome: it's not a browser...

[Nick Taylor]

> It's not an operating system, but it is a recognition of the fact that
> the browser is becoming a platform for applications and should be
> designed with that in mind.  The motivation for Google is pretty
> clear, they want the best platform for their applications.  I'd like
> to develop for it too, just the faster javascript makes a huge
> difference.  Hopefully Chrome will inspire the other browser makers to
> develop along similar lines.  The fact that its all open source should
> help.

I feel a bit sorry for the other browser makers actually - apart from 
MS, who I hate.

I met a bloke from Opera up north recently... they seem like nice people 
etc, and have spent all this time honing and whittling and iterating and 
producing something that's pretty good and then,

bang, out of the forehead of Zeus, fully armed comes this new thing from 
google, who have the resources to do pretty much anything.


(from Shaun)
 > Yeah, I see this as more of an immediate 'threat' to FF rather than
 > Win/IE.

I see it as a threat to Opera... FF has plugins that I can't live 
without, but I browse with Opera because it's faster and uses less 
resources.

So I:

browse with Opera
Develop with FF
use IE to waste time getting Fucking IE to work

I like Opera though... just because I like it etc, so maybe I won't 
change for the sake of it. Chrome is fastest though.