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Am I the only one who thought this was some attack on Chrome? Whenever I hear talk about browser chrome I always think that Google's name choice was a little co
by rubergly 15y ago
Am I the only one who thought this was some attack on Chrome? Whenever I hear talk about browser chrome I always think that Google's name choice was a little confusing. Probably best in the end, though, since it's a catchy name.
- makmanalp 15y agohttps://developer.mozilla.org/en/chrome https://developer.mozilla.org/en/chrome ^ I think Mozilla called their thing Chrome for a long while.
- rubergly 15y agoIn case I wasn't clear, I meant that _Google's_ choice of browser name was confusing, given that it was an already-existing term.
- ra 15y agoI knew what you meant.
- tvon 15y agoI believe "chrome" has meant "the GUI of an application" for a very long time. I think it predates mozilla, but I could be mistaken.
- rudiger 15y agoYou're not mistaken. We were calling it chrome since the Xerox 8010 Information System.
- code_duck 15y agoGoogle seems to be making a habit of that... Closure and Noop are two other examples that come to mind.
- Hovertruck 15y agoDont' forget "Go"
- nddrylliog 15y agoActually, do forget it.
- joejohnson 15y agoI don't think Google is intentionally taking already-used names. There are only so many good project names.
- cookiecaper 15y agoThe confusion caused by naming a browser "Chrome" would have been really obvious to anyone involved in browser hacking.
- gmurphy 15y agoThe lead frontend engineer on Chrome was previously the lead frontend engineer on Firefox, and many other people on the team worked on browsers forever - we all knew what 'chrome' meant in a technical context long before we called it that. But we still liked 'Chrome' more than the other names, and our motto is "content, not Chrome", which neatly works with either capitalization.
- jamesbritt 15y agoDoctype is another. And has nothing to do with mark-up validation or schema.
- wildmXranat 15y agoI remember rummaging through Mozilla projects source code and seen this name there quite a long time ago.
- cookiecaper 15y agoYeah, I was annoyed with Google when they announced Chrome because I thought it would cause some confusing collisions for the technical crowd down the road. I really would have liked to see them choose a different name for their browser. The interface and trappings of the browser has long been called "chrome" by Mozilla, so if you see chrome given in a non-proper-noun context then it probably refers to that, not Google's competing browser.
- dasil003 15y agoTheir attack on Google can always be titled Less Chrome.