Imaginary Landscape
RSS FeedJust when we thought upstart Firefox would (and has to a certain degree) knock Internet Explorer off it's throne, here comes Chrome.
Today is the launch of Google's shiny new browser. And it is a big deal.
Microsoft still holds 73 percent of the browser market, according to Net Applications, a research firm. The market share for Firefox has climbed to 19 percent, while Apple’s Safari has 6 percent, according to the NY Times.
Prompting the company to launch early was the leak of an online comic book. It seems that Google created a comic book to explain the new browser and its features. The comic approach is novel and interesting, however no amount of illustration will make captions like this intelligible to the mainstream:
"When you interpret once and compile machine code, than that code is your representation of the JavaScript source code and it doesn't need to be interpreted, it just runs."
Google geek speak at its best. But, the accompanying race car illustration helps bring it home for me.
Chrome is available for beta download from Google.
Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:13AM CDT by brian
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