The big tech news is Google announcing their long awaited browser that has been speculated on for at least a couple years. Chrome is the project name and the early news is very interesting.
It appears that in several areas the good news is that Google is not creating a whole new browser from scratch. For example, I found the fact that they are using the same rendering engine already used by several existing browsers very refreshing. (Webkit). Too often development teams feel the need to create something new and rendering engines and app frameworks are often areas people build things that really do not need to be built. From the Official Google Blog entry on Chrome:
We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we’re committed to continuing on their path. We’ve used components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, among others — and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.
TechCrunch also has a nice write up on the Google Chrome press conference.
I am also very interested to see how well the support for multiple running processes works and if as has been speculated, Chrome, really will end up being complimentary to existing browsers like Firefox and IE7. There is speculation that either Mozilla or Microsoft could incorporate aspects of Chrome into their existing browsers. This might be possible for Mozilla, but that sure does not seem to be likely for Microsoft given the likely competitive concerns that would be raised.
I plan to download Chrome and play with it so will share my thoughts in the coming weeks.
September 3, 2008 at 1:30 pm |
should be interesting to see if Chrome works more efficiently than FireFox and IE… if it’s faster than Firefox, since isn’t IE, then i’ll use it