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I can’t remember when I was actually giddy for a new web technology.

Google, you go, girl.

Sounds very promising and well overdue - it does start to feel a bit primitive what we are limited to by browsers and the whole concept needs a rethink to suit todays world.

Indeed. HTML started as a format for linking documents together, then it was expanded to basic typesetting, then into advanced typesetting. Now a huge role for HTML (and associated tech) is in application development. To drag out the ubiquitous car metaphors, it’s a bit like building an airplane with a Ford Model-T chassis.

HTML (particularly the stuff that’s coming down the pipe) is exciting and expressive, but it’s also filled with a lot of design decisions deriving from mixed motives. Any attempt to synthesize the good parts into an effective application platform and an efficient document delivery system is a win in my book.

Looks like its time to update the User-Agents config again.

Browser Wars II, here we come… :roll:

It’s webkit, and they don’t have a mac version yet (wha?) :( .

http://www.google.com/chrome/

Downloading it now - definitely looking forward to using it although I am dissappointed it doesn’t have a strong extension capability. With Google’s support for Firefox I am sure we’ll see this go one of two ways: either Chrome continues to grow and mirrors a lot of the features from Firefox or Google shares the V8 engine with Mozilla (and we’re all just beta testers for that new engine).

I’d hate to see people abandon IE 6.

I’m on the mailing list, and I subscribe to the Google Blog RSS, so as soon as the Mac version comes out, I’m going to play with it. I just hope quite a few people leave IE for this, because it’s Google, and IE sucks. There is a link to it from the Homepage, so it’ll get a lot of exposure.

I’m using it right now… it’s a shame that only works on windows (and doesn’t work with wine =().
So far it looks OK, but it isn’t stunning

I’m using it now and I will probably leave FF in the dust if plugin support is added. The multi-process design appears solid, the ui design is solid, and it is super-fast.

just the next big thing to collect more data about us and our sites

Hehe, to be honest I don’t care too much about the browser.  I just want to take V8 for a spin.

I’m already pretty locked into Safari’s workflow (shortcuts and such), so unless this blows everything away, I probably won’t switch.  Certainly not with the current design 😛 .
Aside from that, Opera has had a lot of those design options for a while (grid homepage, tabs on top).  And neither really caught my fancy.

mmm, just downloaded this… VERY NICE. I like, how much?

😊 thanks for creating this thread. 😊

Google’s strategy was never to come up with stunning stuff, they create nice things that just sit there quietly (in betas for years) and we start using them little by little and then e-life without them seems impossible.

To me that happened with:
1. Obviously search
2. Gmail
3. Analytics

You hear about it, use it for a bit, go like: yeah… its ok… and later on get addicted… 😊 Just you wait a few years. If the plugins get implemented, this user has a very good future.

As an example, at the moment firefox is included in the google pack.. as soon as chrome reaches first “stable” release, firefox gets a kick in the butt and there we go, Chrome enters the race.

Wow, you can resize textareas yourself heh.  Seems the jQuery plugin Autogrow still works though.

I’m digg’n the browser.  Plug-ins and Extensions will be coming soon, the code is open source so I don’t see a reason why they wouldn’t make it easy for people to add on to it.

Browser Wars II, here we come…

As others have said, it’s based off of Webkit, and Google has always pushed the progressive enhancement side of application development rather than the graceful degredation or browser selection models. I think their decision to push Chrome out the door has something to do with the uneven progress in forwarding new revisions to core web technologies: HTML, Javascript, and CSS. They seem to be trying to shift the discussion to, “how can we make the current experience safer, easier, and faster?” rather than, “what new shiny thing should browsers have in ten years?”

I’d be curious to see how the recent series of Javascript engines compare to each other. Safari/Webkit gets SquirrelFish and Firefox/Gecko gets SpiderMonkey, and now Google dropped V8 on us.

It’s webkit, and they don’t have a mac version yet (wha?) :( .

Webkit isn’t OS-bound anymore. It runs quite happily on Windows (Safari/Win) and Linux (Konquerer) and even embedded processors (Android, etc).