{"id":117,"date":"2008-09-02T16:15:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T20:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2008\/09\/02\/finally-googles-own-web-browser\/"},"modified":"2008-09-02T16:15:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T20:15:04","slug":"finally-googles-own-web-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/finally-googles-own-web-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally! Google&#8217;s own Web browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about time &#8212; Google&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\">shipping their own Web browser<\/a>\u00a0(Chrome). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is an <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">extremely <\/span>interesting development, and I&#8217;m surprised it&#8217;s taken this long to happen. \u00a0I&#8217;ve only played with Chrome only briefly so far, but it&#8217;s got some interesting features, reminding us there&#8217;s still room for innovation in browsers.<\/p>\n<p>Those pushing the limits wth Web apps are always running into annoying browser limitations &amp; bugs. \u00a0 It&#8217;s even worse in a relatively fragmented browser market (FireFox in different versions, IE, Safari, Opera, etc.), each with <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">slightly <\/span>different capabilities. \u00a0This move gives Google end-to-end control over their destiny.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chrome is going to have to earn it&#8217;s chops in the market to get share, but the (potential) Google apps tie-in is what&#8217;s most intersting. \u00a0Google&#8217;s in a much stronger position than Microsoft was with IE &#8212; if\/when the existing Google apps run better in Chrome, people will switch.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about time &#8212; Google&#8217;s\u00a0shipping their own Web browser\u00a0(Chrome). \u00a0 This is an extremely interesting development, and I&#8217;m surprised it&#8217;s taken this long to happen. \u00a0I&#8217;ve only played with Chrome only briefly so far, but it&#8217;s got some interesting features, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/finally-googles-own-web-browser\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}