[Wsuug] Chrome

[Joshua McDonald]

Avant and Maxthon have been around for a long time and have no impact.

Besides, more browsers isn't the problem.  If they were all standards  
compliant (or at least 99%) then there would be no problem.

On top of that, safari is built on webkit.  As far as rendering goes,  
you can expect near exact results as safari.  I'm looking forward to a  
mac version of it, the changes to the javascript engine (specifically  
the way it compiles JS code to machine code from the start, and keeps  
the js process separate from the rendering process) have me excited  
about it.

I think google will be the blow to knock IE off of it's pedestal.  To  
a lot of the "average Joe's" out there, google pretty much -IS- the  
internet.  With a heavy push by google, I would expect chrome to  
bypass firefox rather quickly, but do so mainly on IE switches, and  
once IE gets down below 50%, developers are going to be more likely to  
stop focusing so much on it, and we might have a short spell of "your  
browser sucks, upgrade to..." to help us out.  There is a tipping  
point where IE will tumble, and hopefully a push like this from google  
will be the catalyst to get there.

Joshua McDonald
Grow Interactive
www.thisisgrow.com
757-248-5274
757-248-5275 (f)

On Sep 4, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Dan Swaney wrote:

> My concern is for the wave of web browsers that are flooding in.   
> The QA test matrix to include every one of these browsers is enormous!
>
> Here's a few I recently hear about around the water cooler:
>     http://www.avantbrowser.com/
>     http://www.maxthon.com/
>     http://flock.com/
>
> The most painful for me is how customers still want to use IE 6 and  
> JRE 1.4.2.
> (even when the JRE 1.4.2 is being sunset in October).
>
> =Dan=
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Kelley Walker <kelley.walker at dominionenterprises.com 
> > wrote:
>
> Wondering what everyone's thinking about Chrome.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d1_ool4r7s
>
>
> Kelley
>
>
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