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Re:Jealous of Windows users and their Google Chrome? Build C... by rcoder on Tuesday September 02, 2008 @06:53PM (#293336)
Seeing that cross-platform support really is in progress (albeit incomplete) and not just a hypothetical goal reassures me that Google is truly serious about seeing Chrome become a sustainable open-source project.

My initial fear upon hearing the release announcement was that this was intended exclusively as a salvo against IE8 on Windows, and that Google just wanted to further needle Microsoft. If they're willing to invest engineering resources in support for less-dominant platforms, it suggests very strongly that they really do want to drive the state of the art for browser implementations forward across the board.

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Re:Jealous of Windows users and their Google Chrome? Build C... by litewulf on Tuesday September 02, 2008 @07:48PM (#293368)
I doubt that Google began building this to compete with IE8 when it was announced given how slowly they build stuff ;)

I bet its more a happy confluence of events that so much browser news has been happening of late. I think most browser "creators" kind of had roughly the same ideas year(s?) back and decided to move in the same direction since everyone is using the same web and facing largely the same problems.

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