This morning I went to download the new Google Chrome browser. A lot of noise had been made about it, releasing a cute comic explaining the high-tech features of the new browser one day before releasing the browser.
Once I try it out it looks nice. Very nice, making the tabs part of the window bar and stripping away a line or two of menus and status bar makes the browser feel very slimmed.
Though the first and most fascinating thing I discover is features provided by Gears. My Google Reader can now download and provide me articles offline, nice! As I understand it, Gears is an interface to easily expose advanced browser functions to programmers in a unified way. It's with great anticipation I am looking forward to what great user experiences and features web applications using Gears can bring.
PS. Ashish has the head-start of time zones, but I find more interesting things :-)
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
First exciting thing about Google Chrome - Gears
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2 comments:
Tänkte bara påpeka två saker när jag ändå är i farten:
Om man konfigurerat sina google-applikationer till att köra svenska så fungerar inte offline-stödet(!)
Gears finns som plugin till andra browsers så det går alldeles utmärkt att använda i Firefox också.
Ser man på! Ja, klantigt om offline-stödet går sönder. Men tufft att det finns till andra browsers med, det finns så många konstiga prylar för web nuförtiden, Rails, AJAX, DOM, JSOP, jag bara inte visste var Gears ( http://gears.google.com/ ) hörde hemma. Så eh... om man skulle vilja bygga applikationer uteslutande på XHTML och RSS (varför man nu skulle föredra det) så går det nu använda dem offline också. Åtminstone i Google Reader uppskattar jag väl det i.o.f.s. :-)
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