{"id":494,"date":"2008-09-02T20:41:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T01:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2008\/09\/02\/more-about-chrome\/"},"modified":"2008-09-02T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T01:41:14","slug":"more-about-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/02\/more-about-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"More About Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/object>Things I Learned:<\/p>\n
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  • They borrowed some UI concepts from Opera and IE (controls and address bar inside the tabs, speed dial, paste-and-go) but I think they've done some things better. For instance: the default home page requires zero user interaction, the status bar is only present when you hover over a link, tab cycling makes sense and requires zero thought.<\/li>\n
  • They really didn't want to introduce another rendering engine for developers - so Google is simply using WebKit, it won't be a fork<\/li>\n
  • No tie-ins to Google Services installed by default<\/li>\n
  • They've been working on it for two years<\/li>\n
  • V8 will eventually make its way into Android<\/li>\n
  • They haven't made very many contributions to Webkit, but are fully committed to doing so. Their plan is to build Chrome off the WebKit tip<\/li>\n
  • Extensibility - though they obviously support traditional browser plugins and they have plans for a richer extension API - it won't be in the Beta.<\/li>\n
  • UA String is: \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit\/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/0.2.149.27 Safari\/525.13\" =>Google, please work to shorten<\/em> the UA string, not lengthen it (is there really any valid reason for \"Safari\/...\" to be there?)<\/li>\n
  • The browser is fast. Transition is seemless. I like that the default home page requires no user interaction to generate. Ctrl+L, Ctrl+K, Alt+D, Ctrl+T all work as I expected.<\/li>\n
  • They are using an older version of WebKit (older than Safari 3.1 it looks like) as there are two SVG-related rendering problems with my site that I thought were long gone<\/li>\n
  • They have a sense of humour (open up the Chrome Task manager and see the link at the bottom)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Further Exploration:<\/p>\n

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    1. I'm curious how browsers like IE and Chrome are ensuring that access to the browser cache is shared efficiently across all processes?<\/li>\n
    2. I'd like to learn more about the 'cross-platform' graphics library that they are using, does it support hardware acceleration?<\/li>\n
    3. Are other browser vendors worried that the editor of the HTML5 spec is now an employee of a browser vendor?<\/li>\n
    4. What are Google Chrome's plans for feeds? At the moment, there isn't even any auto-discovery<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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