[Wsuug] Chrome

[Kelley Walker]

I don't know. Microsoft has been recruiting fast and furious
for their Google competition, Office Live. I can't imagine
they'll go down that quickly. Too much is at stake.

We should take bets, with a deadline, or something. :)

 
Kelley
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From: wsuug-bounces at list.wsuug.org
[mailto:wsuug-bounces at list.wsuug.org] On Behalf Of Joshua
McDonald
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:27 AM
To: Web Standards and Usability User Group
Subject: Re: [Wsuug] Chrome


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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