{"id":493,"date":"2008-09-01T22:47:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T03:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2008\/09\/01\/googles-chrome\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T22:47:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T03:47:13","slug":"googles-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/01\/googles-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/google.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>Google is going to release a new open-source web browser tomorrow (Sept 2nd, 2008) called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\" title=\"Google Chrome Browser\">Google Chrome<\/a>.  Lots of information contained in forty pages of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googlebooks\/chrome\/\">this comic book<\/a>.  The rendering engine is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webkit.org\/\" title=\"WebKit Rendering Engine\">WebKit<\/a>, but it has its own JavaScript engine (V8) that compiles the JS into <del>byte<\/del><ins>machine <\/ins> code and uses more efficient garbage collection.  It also follows the thoughts of the Internet Explorer team of putting the tab at the root of the UI and letting each tab be its own process (not just thread).  Oh, it comes with <a href=\"http:\/\/gears.google.com\/\" title=\"Google Gears\">Google Gears<\/a> pre-installed too.<\/p>\n<p>This all sounds good:  security, stability, anti-phishing, sandboxing, 'superfast' JS.  Of course there's only one true test though.<\/p>\n<p>At first I was wondering if this was a <em>fork<\/em> of WebKit, but I think the only thing that would make sense would be for Google to work in parallel with WebKit (continually updating Chrome's rendering engine with new versions of WebKit).  Everything else would be part of the Chrome open source project.  If you're in the know, drop a line below.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, I'm happy.  A completely open source browser that supports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Graphics\/SVG\" title=\"Scalable Vector Graphics\">SVG<\/a> and is (sort of) co-sponsored by two big companies with lots of cash (Google and Apple).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is going to release a new open-source web browser tomorrow (Sept 2nd, 2008) called Google Chrome. Lots of information contained in forty pages of this comic book. The rendering engine is WebKit, but it has its own JavaScript engine (V8) that compiles the JS into bytemachine code and uses more efficient garbage collection. It [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,25,11,28],"tags":[68,191,156],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-software","category-technology","category-web","tag-chrome","tag-google","tag-webkit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}