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Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment
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Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment
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Re: Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment
#2I don't understand Chrome apps. They require installation and only work on Chrome, so they come with none of the benefits of the web. They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point?
Re: Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment
#3I don't understand Chrome apps. They require installation and only work on Chrome, so they come with none of the benefits of the web. They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point?
The main benefits as I see them are:
* Its an easy way to build simple(ish) cross-platform apps using HTML/CSS/Javascript. * A native app platform for Chromebooks * Promotion of your app the Chrome store. * For users their apps are available anywhere Chrome is.
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#4I don't understand Chrome apps. They require installation and only work on Chrome, so they come with none of the benefits of the web. They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point?
They are just apps that use the ChromeOS development library (JS, HTML, CSS and some custom APIs). Think of it like Cocoa on OS X. Except they can also run in the Chrome browser on other OSes. I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.
Re: Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment
#5I don't understand Chrome apps. They require installation and only work on Chrome, so they come with none of the benefits of the web. They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point?
Define "installation"? My definition of installation is whether or not I can install it on a PC that is locked down by a system's administrator. While it may (or may not) be possible to lock down Chrome from being able to install apps, I've never been anywhere that did, despite those machines being otherwise locked down.
Otherwise, the benefits are
- being able to develop in just HTML/CSS/JS
- being able to deploy to Windows, Linux, OSX, anywhere Chrome runs
- No infrastructure costs to host / distribute (unless your app has server-side functionality)
etc., etc.
Re: Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment
#6Seems kind of obvious yes? I mean if you're building an OS (ChromeOS) and you want to do native development, you build your tools to work in the OS right? Or am I missing something here? One of the coolest things about early databases was the 'web based' development environment, except for the sql injection attacks of course :-)
Re: Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment
#7I don't understand Chrome apps. They require installation and only work on Chrome, so they come with none of the benefits of the web. They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point?
They are just apps that use the ChromeOS development library (JS, HTML, CSS and some custom APIs). Think of it like Cocoa on OS X. Except they can also run in the Chrome browser on other OSes. I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.
Is there someway to do standalone installs as well? It seems like that might be against Google's motives in getting everyone to use Chrome as a browser, but it would make it easier to distribute applications in a "traditional" manner.
Plus, it would be nice to have dedicated icons, etc...
Re: Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment
#8This actually isn't a cloud-based IDE, it's a Chrome App and runs completely locally and offline, editing a project on the local file system. You won't need to log into anything or store your code on anyone else's servers, though there is git integration.
Re: Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment
#9I don't understand Chrome apps. They require installation and only work on Chrome, so they come with none of the benefits of the web. They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point?
In addition to all the siblings' points, it does look like we're going to be able to have Firefox and Chrome compatible apps someday (I can't find a link right now, but it's been a secondary goal for both teams, Mozilla especially as they define APIs for Firefox OS that will be compatible with the open (but with permissions) web). Hopefully the teams keep working on this.
Re: Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment
#10I don't understand Chrome apps. They require installation and only work on Chrome, so they come with none of the benefits of the web. They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point?
Just to add a few:
- They work offline, like native apps, but are cross-platform, like web apps.
- You can develop and distribute them without running your own server infrastructure (the Chrome store will distribute them and the run locally).
- They work on ChromeOS