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Re: Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

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Post by mechanical_fish »

johnyzee wrote: post #28
haasted wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The graphic presentation is accessible through http://blogoscoped.com.nyud.net/google-chrome/ .

That is a badass presentation. I wouldn't have read 10% of that information had it been delivered as paragraphs of text.

It's brilliant design work. Favorite thing I've noticed so far: The trick of managing to introduce N different members of the design team, and give you an idea of what each one is working on, during the presentation by having each one deliver five lines and then hand over to the next. This trick would never, ever work in a screencast or a movie -- even if every individual had the acting chops to pull it off, it would feel like a circus act. But in comics, it works, because the comic characters are sufficiently abstract that they can take over from each other, almost mid-sentence, without a jarring discontinuity.

I swear that reading McCloud is almost enough to send me to art school.

Re: Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

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Post by nickb »

siong1987 wrote: post #24
alaskamiller wrote: post #20

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The browser war was based on distribution, not marketing. Now this will be a war based on money, not distribution. Will Google continue to pay and support Mozilla Foundation? Because once that's gone...

Google just signed a 3 years deal with Mozilla. So, personally, I don't think that Google Chrome would be direct competitor to Firefox. They are in fact in two different market - normal browsing VS web application. Refer: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/28/mozilla-extends-lucrati... http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/08/26/firefox-summit-ref...

They're definitely competing but Google knows that browser usage stats don't change overnight so they're just hedging their bets. So it doesn't matter whether Firefox or Chrome wins, Google wins in the end.

Re: Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

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Post by ojbyrne »

AndyKelley wrote: post #44

http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/22 What would you use this incognito feature for, except the obvious? Are they really creating a feature just for that one thing?

A lot of people use internet cafes, especially outside north america, some of which don't do the best job of wiping data after use.

Re: Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

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Post by pxlpshr »

cookiecaper wrote: post #16
jeffgreco wrote: post #11

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Strikes me as a very catchy name for the typical user, who most likely doesn't have "browser chrome" in their vocabulary already. And I doubt it'll be that hard for the rest of us to keep straight.

You're probably right, but there are so many other potential catchy names that aren't the same as Mozilla's interface layer, so I don't know why they couldn't have just gone with one of those and made it easier on everyone.

it's the interface layer in Flex/AIR too. i don't think it's that unique to Mozilla.

Re: Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

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Post by llimllib »

queensnake wrote: post #42
13ren wrote: post #34

This is a competitor in the AIR / silverlight / JavaFX space Javascript can be enormously faster: compare ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0, which are implementations of ECMAscript (which Javascript is also) in Adobe's Flash. If Google can basically get these things right - local persistence, speed and animation tools - the Web OS that Microsoft has greatly feared will be finally upon us...

Who knows but that what's next on Google's plate is a great implementation of SVG or whatever, to be a completely open alternative to AIR and Silverlight. I think we can almost expect it.

The webkit implementation of is excellent, which fills most of the need for SVG, especially with separate processes for tabs.

Re: Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

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Post by rglullis »

AndyKelley wrote: post #44

http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/22 What would you use this incognito feature for, except the obvious? Are they really creating a feature just for that one thing?

Think of library computers, or the "Telecentros" in São Paulo.

Even more important. With the browser being a true OS and more and more applications living in the cloud, there is a slight chance that people would have less of a need to carry their own laptop around, and just work on someone else's. Incognito mode could be a way to make that easy and worry-free.

Re: Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

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Post by netcan »

Question:

Is there any/much value in controlling the browser or owning the most popular browser in itself?

*By 'in itself' I mean ignoring advantages such as Google's: 'We need web-apps to work' or Microsoft's: 'We need web-apps not to work'

If default Search Engine settings are actually worth what Google paid ($55m for 15% of the market X 3 yrs) & no other revenue sources exist, the market's worth about $120m p/y. is that it?

Re: Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

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Post by william42 »

krschultz wrote: post #26

I don't think this is an attack on Firefox over 50 million bucks. I think this is Google looking at the web and saying we need a faster, more stable, more rich, browser that has these 20 features to allow us to push our web apps forward. Their game is to make web apps equal to desktop apps so that they can sell advertising on them - and hammer Microsoft. This goes towards that goal. I'm looking forward to it. Firefox…

Agreed. I wouldn't be surprised if this derived from some pissed-off (at the general state of web browsers esp. wrt slowness) Google engineer.

Re: Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

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Post by william42 »

mechanical_fish wrote: post #51
johnyzee wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is a badass presentation. I wouldn't have read 10% of that information had it been delivered as paragraphs of text.

It's brilliant design work. Favorite thing I've noticed so far: The trick of managing to introduce N different members of the design team, and give you an idea of what each one is working on, during the presentation by having each one deliver five lines and then hand over to the next. This trick would never, ever work in a screencast or a movie -- even if every individual had the acting chops to pull it off, it would…

Hell, just set up some webspace and try to start a webcomic, and you can probably learn basic art skills "on the job" as it were.
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