In this episode, while I’m State-side, Charles is still in Finland. Thus, we start out talking about the wood-burning sauna he’s been using. We then jump into a discussion of Chrome, and then I float the theory that there’s major cracks in the dominance of web-only UIs – what with RIAs and the iPhone.
We wrap up with a special production from Charles.
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You should check Chrome out, I was skeptical at first but once I loaded Zenoss up on it, I was sold. It is blazing fast, we’ll see how Firefox 3.1 compares. But I won’t switch from Firefox until
1) it runs on OSX/Linux
2) has AdBlock
Took me a while to figure out Chrome. It’s faster, but javascript speed is pretty rarely a concern. Why the hell is google doing this?
Figured it out. If you go to the document menu and say “Save link to this page” or some such crap, Chrome reconfigures it self. It hides all the decorations except for the heading and starts looking and acting exactly just like an app. (For instance, once you’ve done that, links will open in a new window rather than replace the page that is being viewed).
What this amounts to is an ability to take google docs or gmail or even ig and make it a complete replacement for Word, Excel, Outlook, …
You start working in a new way. The web is still there, but now each doc I use in google docs is a little icon on the desktop. Each one acts just like it’s own little word doc.
So this isn’t a killer use or anything, but it’s a subtle shift that is absolutely needed if they are going to completely eliminate desktop apps and make a PC that is web only.
Since I don’t have access to a windows box, I won’t even be evaluating chrome until there is a version for OSX/Linux
I thought it was GNU/Linux?
?) Anyway, I have the same problem – but that wrapping it up and making it a platform is seriously good news. Firefox could create similar bundles tho, but as DHH says, choice is a bad thing.