Google planning new Chrome browser based on WebKit
September 1st, 2008
Prince McLean, Apple Insider
A Google blogger has published an illustrated document outlining Google Chrome, a new web browser project based on Apple’s WebKit open source rendering engine.
The blogger says Google mailed out a description of the new project’s features in the form of a 38-page comic book, illustrated by artist Scott McCloud of Understanding Comics and distributed under a Creative Commons license.
Google planning new Chrome browser based on WebKit
Google on Google Chrome comic book
 | Daniel Eran Dilger is the author of “Snow Leopard Server (Developer Reference),” a new book from Wiley available now from Amazon as a paperback or digital Kindle download. |
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Slide 37: “It’s in our interest to make the internet better and without competition we have stagnation, that’s why we’re open sourcing the whole thing. we need the internet to be a fair, smart, safe place.” You had it pretty spot on in a previous article (w.r.t. AIR, Silverlight, Flash, vs building openly). Some features from different browsers – Opera front page, Mozilla in parts, the idea of Javascript being pretty fundamental. The concept of making each tab separate sounds useful. Will Safari/Firefox/Opera have this? Gears is thrown in at the end, but no mention of what HTML 5 can do in this area.
The last couple articles have been missing the link to Apple Insider at the end.
Yeah, Tomtubbs, I agree. Daniel was spot on with his AJAX analysis. Clearly, “open” is the way, because it is so much stronger than its competition. I’m very curious about Chrome. I wonder if it’s as good as it claims. Sure thing, it promises both in architecture and design!
Did anyone else noticed the “Wouldn’t it be great…” line in the first page of the comic? It made me chuckle.
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