[olug] Chrome

[Sam Tetherow]

I've used it for a day or so and it seems pretty fast in comparison and 
the general feel is nice.  Not sure what all the sour grapes are about...

A large corporation has developed what appears to be a pretty complete 
browser based on webkit and a nice javascript engine and released it 
under the BSD license.  I don't see where people have anything to bitch 
about.  Don't like it, don't use it.  Something nice in it, take it out 
and reuse it, it isn't even GPL encumbered.

As for the blog post, it seems like the author has an issue with 
marketing more than anything.  Not sure on IE8's timeline or even the 
timeline of Chrome, but to say, IE8 already has a feature seems a bit 
much considering IE8 is still Beta 2.

As for the Javascript and CSS coders out there, if Google sticks to the 
specs for both there shouldn't be any issues.  If there are specific 
places where Chrome is out of spec on either then bugs should be filed.

    Sam Tetherow
    Sandhills Wireless

Carl Lundstedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 12:53 -0500, Luke -Jr wrote:
>   
>> On Wednesday 03 September 2008 07:59:03 Chad Homan wrote:
>>     
>>> well I for one am disappointed that you can only try out google's new
>>> browser on windows.
>>>       
>> That's okay. It's got nothing special or innovative after all.
>>     
> This blogger seems to agree:
> http://www.osnews.com/story/20244/Google_Chrome_Considered_Harmful/page1/
>
> (Although the title 'considered harmful' is pretty bogus compared to
> what he says in the article.)
>
> Carl
>
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