Google Chrome has interesting implications for the web and technology, but how does it work as a browser? Scott Berkun's initial review of the browser as only a browser is the most interesting.
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It seems Google has decided the world needs Yet Another WebKit-based Browser: Chrome. Chrome? That's the best they could come up with?! Well, more on that later. In the mean time it seems we got a little investigative work to get done. Here's what we've got so far...
Data messaging formats represent the life-blood of any distributed application. The ability to pass information back and forth between disparate systems becomes crucial for any organization, but for companies such as Google, the challenge of setting up communications between the thousands of different servers that host the various Google services forced the need for a specialized format that met their needs in particular.<
Google needs to minimize the number of formats they MUST support, especially of dynamic formats where the content needs to be interpreted in order to be indexed. Think of how long it took for them to make some inroad on indexing Flash (as an example of flash indexing try this). The easiest way to prevent the need for indexing XML with XSL-T is to not do it until it becomes really wide-spread.
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