Comments on: Burning Chrome

By: alsanan.info » Chrome, ¿un antes y un después?

alsanan.info » Chrome, ¿un antes y un después? — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:35:11 +0000

[...] Infovore » Burning Chrome: Google necesita que los usuarios tengan navegadores decentes y compatibles con los estándares, para extraer lo máximo de la web enriquecida; no quieren estar dando rodeos por culpa de Internet Explorer (IE) todo el tiempo. Olvidando los avances de un mucho mejor motor de Javascript precompilado, simplemente necesitan que la gente deje de usar IE. [...]

By: Paul Mison

Paul Mison — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:23:51 +0000

Tom Taylor: “I thought Google would have done this earlier with a branded version of Firefox”

Tom Scott: “they could have worked with Mozilla to add these features to Firefox – instead Google went and built their own browser”

The problem is, part of what Chrome wants is fewer features; less chrome, less in the distance between the user and the web. It’s hard enough to take away features in a commercial, single-author product- I believe Brent Simmons has been tackling this a lot in his blog recently – and to do so in a big open source project like Firefox strikes me as being an utter waste of time. It probably was easier for Google to start afresh than to try and mould Firefox from outside. (For what it’s worth, I agreed completely with the bits of Tom Scott’s quotes that Tom Armitage expanded on.)

Now, the next question is why the went with WebKit not Gecko, but for me that’s obvious: WebKit does one thing well, whereas Gecko is itself something of a “platform play”, as it includes the whole XUL infrastructure. (And I should stop here, or at least put this on a site of my own…)

By: Tom Allender

Tom Allender — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:23:37 +0000

IE does connect to FTP servers in addition to HTTP web servers. Making it more than just a web browser (tongue firmly in cheek) it’s an Internet Explorer.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:42:54 +0000

The Internet in the name thing is a given, I often talk to people who just assume that is the Internet, and have no idea there is the concept of a browser.

By: James Wallis

James Wallis — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:40:39 +0000

“Google need users on decent, standards-compatible browsers, to make the most of the rich web”

If that’s the case then why don’t Google Apps support Opera, which is the most standards-compliant browser available for Windows machines and from which Chrome seems to have borrowed quite a few of its ‘innovations’?

By: Tom Taylor

Tom Taylor — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:51:04 +0000

I was thinking exactly the same thing, but I thought Google would have done this earlier with a branded version of Firefox, since they bankroll Firefox almost entirely.