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Re: Modern Web Development

#11
post #6

A mild concern of mine with the "Google, if you’re listening" annotations. It's worth remembering that Chromium's an open-source project. If you really want something, send a patch.

It can be useful to engage open source projects of this size on other grounds - I can't speak for Chromium, but with many significant projects, a patch with some code is less than useful if there's been no discussion around it.

Re: Modern Web Development

#12
post #6

A mild concern of mine with the "Google, if you’re listening" annotations. It's worth remembering that Chromium's an open-source project. If you really want something, send a patch.

You actually bring up a good point, the webkit inspector right now is tied to the webkit project, and the barrier to contribution is prohibitively high. I've suggested to Paul Irish separating the two projects and making them more independent, though I'm not sure what the feasibility of that is.

I can either try to submit a patch and likely fail, or blog about it. Last time I complained to Google about Chrome, they filed 33 bugs and fixed many of them. The point here is to be an agent of change, not an agent of patches :)

Re: Modern Web Development

#13
post #6

A mild concern of mine with the "Google, if you’re listening" annotations. It's worth remembering that Chromium's an open-source project. If you really want something, send a patch.

I'm probably not the only one, but I have no idea where the separation between Chromium and Chrome actually is. Can anyone enlighten me as to where the separation really is? Is Chrome a fork of Chromium, is Chromium an upstream? I know they actively work together in a lot of ways but how exactly?

Re: Modern Web Development

#14
Wonderful, can't wait for part 2. One question: I don't seem to have the same file navigation for my javascript files as mentioned in this article. There is no "tabbed" browsing, nor an icon with two folders at right angles. Chrome is up to date.

Anyone else in this boat?

Re: Modern Web Development

#15
post #6

A mild concern of mine with the "Google, if you’re listening" annotations. It's worth remembering that Chromium's an open-source project. If you really want something, send a patch.

I'm probably not the only one, but I have no idea where the separation between Chromium and Chrome actually is. Can anyone enlighten me as to where the separation really is? Is Chrome a fork of Chromium, is Chromium an upstream? I know they actively work together in a lot of ways but how exactly?

Chromium is the open source project that powers Chrome, the browser. Chrome Canary is upstream of Chromium, which is an upstream of Chrome.

Re: Modern Web Development

#16
The custom scroll bar might look sorta cool, but it's completely unusable on Chrome. The scroll tracker disappears and it's basically impossible to find. I've ended up restarting at the top of the page just to be able to scroll properly.

Re: Modern Web Development

#17

The custom scroll bar might look sorta cool, but it's completely unusable on Chrome. The scroll tracker disappears and it's basically impossible to find. I've ended up restarting at the top of the page just to be able to scroll properly.

Thanks for letting me know, I didn't realize I broke that. I just pushed up a fix

Re: Modern Web Development

#18

Wonderful, can't wait for part 2. One question: I don't seem to have the same file navigation for my javascript files as mentioned in this article. There is no "tabbed" browsing, nor an icon with two folders at right angles. Chrome is up to date. Anyone else in this boat?

When you go to "About Google Chrome", do you see something close to "Version 20.0.1114.0 canary"?

Re: Modern Web Development

#19
post #5

This is a great resource and I'm glad Majd wrote it. However, this is really the kind of content that should be coming out of Google itself. Google is in an interesting position. Of all of the major Silicon Valley tech companies, I think Google is the one most seen as the "web" company, and yet they've staked a lot of their future on Android. Android, instead of making the web a first-class citizen, has in fact set t…

Here ya go, in video too (Google I/O) http://youtu.be/N8SS-rUEZPg

Also has a part on remote debugging which the article doesn't.

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