What Google Chrome has that IE doesn’t
September 23, 2008 – 1:37 pmGoogle’s new Chrome Web browser is being hailed as a game-changer. It is fast, has a clean interface and some snazzy features that other browsers do not have.
Does that mean you should download it right now and spend the time to learn it? If you like new technology, the answer is “sure”.
But if you need to be assured of some payoff in new technology before you invest time in it, you might rightly want some questions answered before you switch. Here are a few.
The company line is that today’s Web browsers - Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox chief among them — were built at a time when most of what people did on the Web were view static pages.
Now, Google says, folks want to do all sorts of things on the Web: play games, balance their cheque books, upload and watch elaborate multimedia presentations, even compose documents or create spreadsheets. The major Web browsers, Google’s management and developers say, have been slow to keep pace with what users are demanding of the Internet.
Google’s answer to this was to create a brand new Web browser built from the ground up using the latest technologies and technological innovations. And the goal was to build this new browser as an open source model.
This means that developers from around the world will have access to the inner workings of the code so that add-ons, extensions, and improvements can be made by the worldwide community of developers. Google believes that with this platform, developers will be able to build the next-generation of Web applications.
Holding the reins of this initiative, of course, gives Google tremendous power should the browser come to dominate, and there’s clearly plenty of ways the company can exploit that for its own purposes.
Chrome, for example, was built in part to handle the JavaScript programming language better than current browsers do.
Source:TOI
