{"id":361,"date":"2008-09-07T16:09:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T14:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2008-09-06T14:10:23","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T12:10:23","slug":"google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"chaos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/chaos.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a mess of wires\" width=\"129\" height=\"86\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This past week Google released a new browser called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/intl\/en\/why.html?hl=en\">Chrome<\/a>.\u00a0 Google has been a principle and driving donor to the Mozilla Foundation, the people who brought you Firefox.\u00a0 Why, then, would they abandon that work in favor of starting from scratch?\u00a0 There are any number of reasons I can think of, putting aside what they in fact wrote:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of Google&#8217;s interests is to be able to compete with Microsoft in the applications space.\u00a0 Google already has a spreadsheet and a document editor available on their web site for free.\u00a0 However, the browser interface itself gets in the way of the user experience.\u00a0 By way of an example, if you wish to save documents to your desktop, something everyone does, one has to invoke a download function, which might in fact cause the document to be displayed in the browser, rather than being saved.\u00a0 Otherwise it might bring up the download windows, which is rather clunky.<\/li>\n<li>To take this a step further, it is equally possible that Google is unsatisfied with the semantics to be found with the combination of HMTL, Javascript, and Java.\u00a0 One thing we do not see in the announcement, for instance, is a discussion of standards adherence.\u00a0 Google has a history of attempting to set de facto standards.\u00a0 The problem with this is that people moving from Microsoft could end up exchanging one evil for another.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong- EVERY company wants to play this game.\u00a0 However, in Microsoft&#8217;s case, they are supervised by at least two government bodies to see that their interfaces remain (at least somewhat) open.<\/li>\n<li>There is perhaps a more obvious reason.\u00a0 Firefox in particular is one of the most complex pieces of code in the world, making use of nearly every C++ construct that exists.\u00a0 Few on this earth are really qualified to make changes to the code because of the level of sophistication.\u00a0 Sometimes, in such circumstances, starting from scratch is easier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is there room in the market for Chrome and whose market share will it take?\u00a0 My guess is that Firefox will bear the brunt of the loss, but sometimes hype is sufficient to steal from others as well.\u00a0 If there truly are new capabilities in Chrome, they will quickly find their way into other browsers.\u00a0 Unless Google encumbers the work in some way, Chrome will end up being a demonstration project.\u00a0 Of one thing we can be assured: the hackers are still out there, and they will be among the first to use Chrome, to find its weaknesses, and to exploit them.\u00a0 We can say that the other browsers are well vetted (yes, even IE).\u00a0 Here is another opportunity for PCs to be 0wn3d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week Google released a new browser called Chrome.\u00a0 Google has been a principle and driving donor to the Mozilla Foundation, the people who brought you Firefox.\u00a0 Why, then, would they abandon that work in favor of starting from scratch?\u00a0 There are any number of reasons I can think of, putting aside what they &hellip; 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