Re:Ask YC: Isn't the Chrome hype a little too much?
by ericwaller on Thursday September 04, 2008 @12:55AM
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Having sort of "grown up" as a web dev with the way things are now (IE in the lead, followed by a smaller, but significant firefox, a few safari users and this thing no one ever heard of called opera) it's been easy to be cynical about progress in the browser world.
What's so exciting about Chrome is that it validates what had seemed like (to me at least) a lot of wishful thinking about "javascript applications" and really full-featured, browser-based UIs.
Plus, having such a big user of bleeding-edge javascript techniques driving the innovation can't be a bad thing.
Re:Ask YC: Isn't the Chrome hype a little too much?
by psyklic on Thursday September 04, 2008 @12:41AM
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De facto standards always create lock-in to a product, at least initially. Nowadays, committees are necessary because no one wants to let their competitor set any standards, "de facto" or not!
It would be cool if Google did that with Chrome. I prefer de facto standards to the type slowly and tediously produced by committees, unless they're overtly evil (i.e. create lock-in for one company), which this clearly isn't.
I've always wished we could go back to the time when someone just made more and more powerful clients, and everyone else had to follow or be left behind.