I am currently testing Chrome, as half a jazillion people might also be doing right now...
I do not know why, but this browser tends to freak me out.
First impression when I opened it : "Woah!". The interface is the allegory of sleekness, everything is neat, clean and blue; the browser looks like a toy, and as a toy, it's really easy to use.
Five minutes are enough to face the fact, Chrome is far from being one of these Chinese gadgets coming plated with...er...chrome, glistening to the eye but total pains in the neck to operate. Chrome is fast, Chrome is user friendly, Chrome renders perfectly the site I'm developing for IE and FF...
The concept underlying the interface is somewhat simple : remove the bloat. The developers did it in a quite brutal way, getting at first rid all the features and deciding afterward which one to include back in the UI. So goes, for instance, the status bar.
One will tend to think: "Well, Google is targeting the masses, a simple browser for users with no need of the bling bling."
To my mind one will be so terribly wrong.
Why so ?
I remember this year of 2000 when one of my teachers said " I like to use Google, I know it's just a runner-up but the interface is simple"
Stating the same about Chrome would be closing your eyes on History...
Think about it : The browser war is raging now between FF and IE who are getting together 90% of the market. The rest is shared between Safari, Opera, Konqueror and MyMarginalBrowser. If Google wanted to penetrate a market with 3% chances to get 2% of it, they would surely release a browser that's just a browser.
What makes me think this way ?
First of all, there are the Google Gears.
This only, has to attract one's attention to what could be actually happening. Google Docs are not only targeting a mobile businesspersons audience, but MS Office as well. As the journalist Jeremy Wagstaff points out, word processors developers won't concentrate on redesigning the basics, and just keep updating (heavily) the interface. Google, nevertheless, is not trying to copy other desktop based application, their devs are just getting rid of the bloat.
The second reason why I suspect Google to be far more ambitious than just airing a browser is this :
First thing first, why a process manager in a web browser ? That's the geekish thing to do, and well, such a geekfruit was to be expected; but would there be another purpose ? If every tab is a separate process, what can this process host ? Only a web page, or much more than that ?
And, right to the right if it... what's that ? Doesn't it look like... a little something we already know in Firefox maybe? No plugins yet? Really? With this brand new V8 engine?
Chrome is open source, Chrome is polyvalent, Chrome will see plugins coming soon (just a hunch), Chrome is targeted to be not only a browser but a, let me coin the term, WOS -Web Operating System.
We have not seen the end of it. Mark me words capt'n.
Technorati Tags: Google, Google Gears, Browser, Web
I do not know why, but this browser tends to freak me out.
First impression when I opened it : "Woah!". The interface is the allegory of sleekness, everything is neat, clean and blue; the browser looks like a toy, and as a toy, it's really easy to use.
Five minutes are enough to face the fact, Chrome is far from being one of these Chinese gadgets coming plated with...er...chrome, glistening to the eye but total pains in the neck to operate. Chrome is fast, Chrome is user friendly, Chrome renders perfectly the site I'm developing for IE and FF...
The concept underlying the interface is somewhat simple : remove the bloat. The developers did it in a quite brutal way, getting at first rid all the features and deciding afterward which one to include back in the UI. So goes, for instance, the status bar.
One will tend to think: "Well, Google is targeting the masses, a simple browser for users with no need of the bling bling."
To my mind one will be so terribly wrong.
Why so ?
I remember this year of 2000 when one of my teachers said " I like to use Google, I know it's just a runner-up but the interface is simple"
Stating the same about Chrome would be closing your eyes on History...
Think about it : The browser war is raging now between FF and IE who are getting together 90% of the market. The rest is shared between Safari, Opera, Konqueror and MyMarginalBrowser. If Google wanted to penetrate a market with 3% chances to get 2% of it, they would surely release a browser that's just a browser.
What makes me think this way ?
First of all, there are the Google Gears.
Gears was designed to be used on both Google and non-Google sites. A number of web applications currently make use of Gears, including two Google products: Google Reader and Google Docs.
This only, has to attract one's attention to what could be actually happening. Google Docs are not only targeting a mobile businesspersons audience, but MS Office as well. As the journalist Jeremy Wagstaff points out, word processors developers won't concentrate on redesigning the basics, and just keep updating (heavily) the interface. Google, nevertheless, is not trying to copy other desktop based application, their devs are just getting rid of the bloat.
The second reason why I suspect Google to be far more ambitious than just airing a browser is this :
First thing first, why a process manager in a web browser ? That's the geekish thing to do, and well, such a geekfruit was to be expected; but would there be another purpose ? If every tab is a separate process, what can this process host ? Only a web page, or much more than that ?
And, right to the right if it... what's that ? Doesn't it look like... a little something we already know in Firefox maybe? No plugins yet? Really? With this brand new V8 engine?
Chrome is open source, Chrome is polyvalent, Chrome will see plugins coming soon (just a hunch), Chrome is targeted to be not only a browser but a, let me coin the term, WOS -Web Operating System.
We have not seen the end of it. Mark me words capt'n.
Technorati Tags: Google, Google Gears, Browser, Web
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