Introducing Chrome for Android • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

#21

Post by TechNewb » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 6:05 PM UTC

Chrome for iOS please.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

#22

Post by aderaynal » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 6:07 PM UTC

voidfiles wrote: post #7

Wow, if they include extensions. This could be huge.

what makes you think they will ?

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

#23

Post by dochtman » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 6:07 PM UTC

Too bad it's only available in "select countries", which certainly don't include the Netherlands... Probably just the US and Canada? Kind of old-fashioned.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

#24

Post by dave1010uk » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 6:07 PM UTC

Does anyone know if this is Open Source?

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

#25

Post by lucaspiller » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 6:08 PM UTC

I'm guessing this shares code with Chromium, so will it be open source too?

EDIT: Looks potential: http://blog.chromium.org/2012/02/deeper-look-at-chrome-for-a...

"With hardware-accelerated canvas, overflow scroll support, strong HTML5 video support, and new capabilities such as Indexed DB, WebWorkers and Web Sockets, Chrome for Android is a solid platform for developing web content on mobile devices."

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

#26

Post by nod » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 6:08 PM UTC

I'm rather confused that Google seems to be aiming to fragment the browser market for its own platform. I already wasn't looking forward to supporting/testing both Browser and Firefox on Android... Is Google just this disorganized internally?

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by emehrkay » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 6:09 PM UTC

I've been hearing that the browser in Android is kinda bad from a lot of web/js developers. I hope that this makes the situation more palatable. Even better is when they'll ship a version for Windows Phone and ios.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

#28

Post by Kevin_Marks » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 6:10 PM UTC

According to MG Siegler, Chrome is in the bizdev-required proprietary 'with Google' part of Android, not the Open Source part. http://parislemon.com/post/17215781807/chrome-for-android-th... That means we're stuck with legacy browsers in existing Androids and in the non-Google-blessed world (Amazon Fire and the billion Chinese phones and tablets).

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

#29

Post by nextparadigms » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 6:11 PM UTC

trotsky wrote: post #16

Decoupling the browser from the OS is one of the best things that could happen for android security going forward. While it won't help people who can't get upgrades to ICS, at least it will solve the future problems of people who get stuck on 4.x while their OS browser slowly becomes more and more exploitable. I have one phone that is still on 2.2 - it is trivially easy to own the phone with a little bit of javascrip…

I'm hoping this means it will get updates every 6 weeks, too.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

#30

Post by fullmoon » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 6:12 PM UTC

TechNewb wrote: post #21

Chrome for iOS please.

Apple doesn't allow applications to provide their own runtimes:

“3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple’s built-in WebKit framework.”