Google Chrome
Sep. 2nd, 2008 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drploktaThere's something that no one is mentioning with reference to Google's new web browser. Which is that if you read what the comic says about the browser, that's not a web browser, it's an operating system.
It has a programming language (Javascript). It has a filesystem/database (Google Gears). It has process management. It has window management and display logic. It has permissions-based security. This is not Google trying to compete with Internet Explorer, it's Google trying to compete with Windows -- or rather, make Windows irrelevant.
It has a programming language (Javascript). It has a filesystem/database (Google Gears). It has process management. It has window management and display logic. It has permissions-based security. This is not Google trying to compete with Internet Explorer, it's Google trying to compete with Windows -- or rather, make Windows irrelevant.
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Date: 2008-09-03 09:11 am (UTC)It'd be nice to have other high level languages compiling to JavaScript - but I'm not sure how efficient, in general, that double-compilation step will be. Compiling down to the new VM would be more efficient, but then you'd be constrained to only Google's browser.
And unless Google get massive traction for Chrome (like over 90%) it won't matter, as you won't be able to rely on people using it as their browser - you'll still have to deal with IE, Opera, Firefox, etc.