I didn't read the article because it's crap. Did they mention that it auto-updates? That alone makes the whole argument invalid because as long as there is auto-update there is no lingering in the past.
Is Google Chrome the New IE6?
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Re: Is Google Chrome the New IE6?
#12Re: that angry birds thing, it sounds to me like Google was marketing the levels as "Chrome exclusive", but not that it specifically took advantage of functionality that was only available on Chrome. I'm thinking something like user-agent detection...? I'm info-poor, here, I admit.
Re: Is Google Chrome the New IE6?
#13There is nothing stopping other browsers from implementing the same features, most of them are probably fully documented standards anyway, even if there was no documentation people could just look at Chromium's source code, which was certainly not the case with IE.
This article is immensely ignorant, it basically states that no browser should have capabilities that other browsers lack, if that would be the case than we would end up in a deadlock, because everyone would wait for everyone.
Emerging standards need to be tried in the open, Google is doing the right thing, they are trying SPDY with real world web apps and real world customers so that it will mature by the time other browsers implement it and we won't be stuck with implementations that suck.