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"Will it tie into Google Maps and Google Print and Google Desktop and the 18,432,922 other Google projects in ways that a non-Google browser wouldn’t?" It's no

• dagw 17y ago
  True, but that doesn't stop Google from adding proprietary features in chrome which those apps can take advantage of to improve the user experience. As long as they make sure everything works very well in all browsers there's no reason they can't make them work even better in Chrome.
  • ZeroGravitas 17y ago
    They have stated repeatedly that Chrome is intended to spur all browsers and therefore the web platform onward. They could be lying, but if they're not then fragmenting the web platform in this way would be counterproductive. It would be better for everyone for their improvements to be implementable in other browsers.
• cousin_it 17y ago
  Not completely sure, but I think I've found one place where Chrome seems to be special-casing Google Maps: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1446 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1446 Basically, it ignores hotspot positions specified in custom .cur files (always uses the top left corner), but for some reason doesn't ignore the hotspot in the Google Maps dragging hand cursor. Downloading the exact same .cur file from Maps and using it in a local test page breaks the hotspot too, so the behavior seems to be tied to the Google Maps URL rather than the file contents. But maybe there's another explanation for this.