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

[Alastair James]

I just hope that when they get the download experience a bit nicer (they
will) and stick a link on the google homepage (they will) it increases the
momentum of people moving away from IE 6 (aka the bane of my life).

Do you guys think this will have this effect?

Al

2008/9/3 Nick Taylor <nick at tangerineworks.com>

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> > 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.
>
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> (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.
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