Originally posted by Daemon SinI doubt that, it´s been a couple of years for them to try and best Mozilla and the result of that isn´t looking too good either.
Plus, knowing MS they'll already have something in the pipeline to counter Chrome and will release it in about 6 or 7 months to entice people back over. 😕
However, give me Konqueror any day 🙂
I´ll disagree with Russ here too. I think web apps will be bit players for as long as it is legal to own your own PC. Software vendors have been trying to go back to serving users applications for years and years and it hasn´t really happened. Strange really when in the days of dumb terminals and X terminals that´s all the users ever had.
Originally posted by WheelyI think you need to make a better distinction between web based apps and Software as a Service (SaaS), though.
I´ll disagree with Russ here too. I think web apps will be bit players for as long as it is legal to own your own PC. Software vendors have been trying to go back to serving users applications for years and years and it hasn´t really happened. Strange really when in the days of dumb terminals and X terminals that´s all the users ever had.
SaaS may not have taken off as everyone predicted, but web based apps are going very strong and I believe it's only a matter of time before we will only need a browser and broadband connection to get our work done.
Originally posted by JaminI saw a preview of it.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10029974-2.html
Thoughts?
We can share our first impressions tomorrow after the launch,
presupposing there's available bandwidth to support mass downloads (I'm guessing yes) and that anyone will actually try it (also, guessing yes).
-J
It looks gay.
Originally posted by rbmorrisWell, if gay is working pretty damn fast and looking sleek whilst doing it, then we have a winner.
I saw a preview of it.
It looks gay.
First impressions? Very nice.
Go here to download it and check it yourself.
http://www.google.com/chrome/?utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-blog-ogb&utm_medium=blog&brand=CHMP
All good so far. I will be using it for day-to-day work for a few days, and see how it goes. The only issue so far I have seen is a minor error in the rendering (corrupt graphics) when the scroll bar pops on and off during a window resize. I have seen this on an XP and Vista machine, so clearly a Chrome bug.
edit : and the default colours are quite complementary to RHPs blue and whites. 🙂 (IMHO)
Originally posted by RussI like the way it highlights active inputs on forms. One of those nice touches you usually have to build into the CSS as a designer.
All good so far. I will be using it for day-to-day work for a few days, and see how it goes. The only issue so far I have seen is a minor error in the rendering (corrupt graphics) when the scroll bar pops on and off during a window resize. I have seen this on an XP and Vista machine, so clearly a Chrome bug.
edit : and the default colours are quite complementary to RHPs blue and whites. 🙂 (IMHO)
Originally posted by Daemon SinAnd the built-in option to resize text inputs. Looks like they looked long and hard at successful FireFox add-ons.
I like the way it highlights active inputs on forms. One of those nice touches you usually have to build into the CSS as a designer.
Too bad we probably won't see built-in ad blocking 😉
seems okay as a first impression. quite bare, but I tend to like that kind of thing. chrome refuses to get skinned though, so it pops out quite badly from the rest of my OS...
I just hope there won't be similar idiotic mob attitude in pushing it like with ff, with people scripting their pages to not load into ie etc... the spell checker just highlighted 'ie' so looks a bit bad. ie. with a period is flagged as well... that kind of ideology peddling really disgusts me.
Originally posted by Crowleylooks like there's some kind of pop-up blocker already, at least there's a checkbox to disable it in the options. (oh, I just realized chrome automatically installed in finnish, I hate that. I have no idea if it's 'options' or 'preferences' or something else in the english chrome, because it's 'oletukset' in my chrome. 😕)
Too bad we probably won't see built-in ad blocking 😉