Chrome, Google's Upcoming Browser
- Google’s Comic about its Chrome browser by Scott McCloud
Google announced the existence of its new open source project: a web browser, dubbed Chrome, to compete with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera (and whatever else people are using to view the web these days). It’s a crowded market and despite being Google, they’ll have to convince people to migrate and accustom themselves to yet another application. I certainly think they have some nifty ideas for their new baby, especially the parts that treat and present web applications more like full-featured desktop applications.
So far, though, the coolest part is how they announced it, by commissioning Scott McCloud of Understanding Comics fame. Scott is a pre-eminent authority on the medium of graphic novels and his books are required reading in college courses ranging from Composition to Film. The 38-page book is available online and provides a fairly elegant means to see the upcoming browser and its features before it actually exists.
Google: First your search engine, now your browser; next your Operating System.