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Mixture of thoughts on Chrome

September 2nd, 2008 by Dave. 2 Comments »
  1. All this browser innovation (not just Chrome, but also Snowl & Ubiquity from Mozilla) are great, but how quickly can this really move.. after all we still have IE.
  2. If we don’t see the innovation from IE, can we bridge it somehow to allow it to gain mass market? IE plugins?
  3. Chrome uses WebKit. It joins, among others Safari, Chrome, Nokia, iPhone, and Android. Is this aimed at all non-WebKit engine? i.e. IE (Trident) & Firefox (Gecko)
  4. So, who is this aimed at?
    • Safari? doubt it.
    • Opera? Did WebKit gaining popularity take care of them.
    • Firefox? Between WebKit (Apple, Google, Nokia) and Microsoft I can’t help thinking maybe their market share is a niche?
    • Internet Explorer? doubt it, too small an aim for the Google
    • Microsoft? Now we’re talking, bring Gears (included in Chrome) into the mix (over all the supported platforms) and you have the framework of an assault on desktop applications, Microsoft’s core business.
    • Facebook? If we’re looking at a push from desktop world into a web application world the phrase ‘WebOS’ appears. Remember f8 acquisition Parakey?
    • On ‘WebOS’, land you get to Google App Engine, Amazon AWS, OpenSocial et al. I’ve previously laid some thoughts on those.
  5. Javascript engines? Chrome uses V8, while Mozilla has SpiderMonkey & Rhine in it’s toolkit. Both IE and Opera also have their own. What will it mean for Javascript?
  6. From Gears, what about Adobe AIR, Prism, Fluid, what will it mean for these bridging technologies?

I’ll leave it there for now. Your thoughts?

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