[Wsuug] Chrome

[Jon Zuck]

I put up this post about Chrome this evening:
http://wildwebweaving.com/2008/09/04/chrome-is-shiny/

Jon

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Joshua McDonald <josh at thisisgrow.com>wrote:

> 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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