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Dec 12, 08 - 04:17 pm Comment from: Hm...

And the Mac version is ...

Dec 12, 08 - 04:28 pm Comment from: ericdano

Personally, I use Safari on Windows. I like how it renders the pages a lot better than FireFox. I can't think of the last time I used IE on Windows.........*shutters*

Plus, being a .Mac subscriber, I can sync my bookmarks between multiple computers and iPhone, including my Windows computer.

So, unless Chrome can do that hat trick as easily as Safari does, I'll be sticking with Safari all around.

Since the browser is the central part of most OS's and the main tool for a desktop, this likely indicates that Google is pushing Chrome development in order to add it to their rumoured new operating system.

As far as I am concerned, it's still beta until they release a Mac version anyway. How could anyone seriously make a browser that only runs on one OS in today's world and call it "done" in any menaingful way?

What's unique or would make me want to use it when a Leopard version does come out?

Dec 12, 08 - 05:31 pm Comment from: Predrag

The browser wars are on again. If they manage to close some major bundling agreements, making Crome the default browser on Windows boxes, the numers are going to change very quickly. Current erosion of IE share was mainly due to the grassroots FireFox movement (and Safari helped as well). The next big wave of erosion will come when all these new PCs, bundled with Crome, end up on consumers' desktops.

This can only be good. Neither Firefox, Nor Safari require any special development considerations in order to be fully cross-browser and cross-platform compatible. The only guilty party is still, as we all know, IE. As soon as IE drops below 60%, there will be no web sites of any consequence that require only IE (and therefore, only Windows).

A Chrome plated turd perhaps?

google operating system? um they already have one. I guess people still think android is only for phones

Dec 12, 08 - 06:05 pm Comment from: HMCIV

Acid 3 Tests
Opera: 85
Chrome: 79
Safari: 77
Firefox: 71
IE 6: 12

Not Bad Google.

Dec 12, 08 - 06:13 pm Comment from: TexasAg03

I can't think of the last time I used IE on Windows.........*shutters*

I think they should shutter IE as well as Windows. Of course, you probably meant "shudders"...

I think another round of browser wars is definitely in order. Let Firefox, Safari, and Chrome battle it out all they want. Hopefully it will garner enough press that people that only use IE will start paying attention to the REAL browsers.

(Being a web developer, the fewer people using IE, the better my job is...)

Dec 12, 08 - 07:53 pm Comment from: Real IT Guy

Since the browser is the central part of most OS's and the main tool for a desktop

How can any browser beat out IE on a Windows machine. You need IE for Windows updates. It has to be used forever.

Believe me, you really need those Windows updates unless you run Windows completely sand boxed in a virtual machine.

Dec 13, 08 - 04:40 am Comment from: Yours Smugly

Chrome? Google Chrome? The browser with the draconic EULA? The browser that stores all your online activity on Google's servers and makes it Google's property?

I hope they never release a Mac version.

One browser that's never mentioned, and I use it from time to time, is the one that is part of Real Player.

I doubt Google would put serious effort into the mac version of it. They'd need to compete against Safari...

And they know, that competing against Apple today, can be suicidal...

Dec 13, 08 - 12:04 pm Comment from: JAYGEE

'How can any browser beat out IE on a Windows machine. You need IE for Windows updates. It has to be used forever.'

Do you still use IE for updates on Vista? Vista has a similar feature to OS X now, where you click software update, and a control panel appears, rather than it open up in IE.

Dec 14, 08 - 05:04 pm Comment from: derekcurrie

WebKit: The other Mac browser I know of that uses WebKit is my current favorite: OmniWeb. Well worth paying for. Bells and whistles deluxe.

IE: Like it or not, Microsoft are still on the same old trail of making the Internet proprietary. They still perpetrate their own non-standard HTML and scripting (versus LiveScript/JavaScript). There are places on the net where it is the only browser you can use if you want to render a page correctly or use a particular service. An example, for the moment, is NetFlix where ONLY IE on Windows will play streamed movies. This may well change when NetFlix go all SilverLight.

Will Chrome deal sufficiently with the Microsoft net code factor?

Dec 14, 08 - 05:20 pm Comment from: derekcurrie

Regarding the Acid 3 Tests:

The only browser I know of that currently gets 100/100 is the development version of WebKit:

http://nightly.webkit.org/

@derekcurrie

First, Didn't Netflix just drop Silverlight? Or was that MLB.com? or both?

Second, if not, then why would NetFlixs' adoption of silverlight cause LESS IE only websites? Isn't Silverlight an MS product, therefore IE only?