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I would've agreed with you before the launch, but after actually using the browser, I'm extremely impressed. It's difficult to deliver on hype (cuil), and few

I would've agreed with you before the launch, but after actually using the browser, I'm extremely impressed. It's difficult to deliver on hype (cuil), and few companies can do it well (apple), but I think google got it right with chrome.

pchristensen 18y ago
Exactly. I was wondering what the big deal was over the weekend (I didn't get a chance to read anything about it until Tue), but now that I've used it, I think it's going to be amazing. Either a) other browsers will speed up and clean up to match it (unlikely due to backwards compatibility with extensions) or about 6-12 months from now it will be my only browser (it is already my primary browser). Same thing happened with Google search, Google Maps, and Gmail. I'm not an uncritical fanboy but I've been here before.
- pg 18y ago
  Back in the mid 90s, before IE, Netscape was the "only" browser in the sense that every release was a new de facto standard for HTML. That was actually a good time; the web evolved very fast. It would be cool if Google did that with Chrome. I prefer de facto standards to the type slowly and tediously produced by committees, unless they're overtly evil (i.e. create lock-in for one company), which this clearly isn't. I've always wished we could go back to the time when someone just made more and more powerful clients, and everyone else had to follow or be left behind.
  - william42 18y ago
    Well, right now I think they're trying to stealth-improve by putting Gears into all browsers(but of course it'll still be fastest on Chrome)
  - psyklic 18y ago
    De facto standards always create lock-in to a product, at least initially. Nowadays, committees are necessary because no one wants to let their competitor set any standards, "de facto" or not!
    - Herring 18y ago
      How do you do lock in with a FOSS product?
  - ericwaller 18y ago
    Having sort of "grown up" as a web dev with the way things are now (IE in the lead, followed by a smaller, but significant firefox, a few safari users and this thing no one ever heard of called opera) it's been easy to be cynical about progress in the browser world. What's so exciting about Chrome is that it validates what had seemed like (to me at least) a lot of wishful thinking about "javascript applications" and really full-featured, browser-based UIs. Plus, having such a big user of bleeding-edge javascript techniques driving the innovation can't be a bad thing.

pchristensen 18y ago

Exactly. I was wondering what the big deal was over the weekend (I didn't get a chance to read anything about it until Tue), but now that I've used it, I think it's going to be amazing. Either a) other browsers will speed up and clean up to match it (unlikely due to backwards compatibility with extensions) or about 6-12 months from now it will be my only browser (it is already my primary browser). Same thing happened with Google search, Google Maps, and Gmail. I'm not an uncritical fanboy but I've been here before.

pg 18y ago
Back in the mid 90s, before IE, Netscape was the "only" browser in the sense that every release was a new de facto standard for HTML. That was actually a good time; the web evolved very fast. It would be cool if Google did that with Chrome. I prefer de facto standards to the type slowly and tediously produced by committees, unless they're overtly evil (i.e. create lock-in for one company), which this clearly isn't. I've always wished we could go back to the time when someone just made more and more powerful clients, and everyone else had to follow or be left behind.
- william42 18y ago
  Well, right now I think they're trying to stealth-improve by putting Gears into all browsers(but of course it'll still be fastest on Chrome)
- psyklic 18y ago
  De facto standards always create lock-in to a product, at least initially. Nowadays, committees are necessary because no one wants to let their competitor set any standards, "de facto" or not!
  - Herring 18y ago
    How do you do lock in with a FOSS product?
- ericwaller 18y ago
  Having sort of "grown up" as a web dev with the way things are now (IE in the lead, followed by a smaller, but significant firefox, a few safari users and this thing no one ever heard of called opera) it's been easy to be cynical about progress in the browser world. What's so exciting about Chrome is that it validates what had seemed like (to me at least) a lot of wishful thinking about "javascript applications" and really full-featured, browser-based UIs. Plus, having such a big user of bleeding-edge javascript techniques driving the innovation can't be a bad thing.