Google obviously launches a new browser today: Google Chrome (see their blog for more news).
I am not sure I like this. I still remember the old days of web design and web development, when you had to make sure your website ran ok on all different sorts of browsers. I guess everybody remembers those nasty “optimised for Internet Explorer 4.0” taglines on website frontpages. The war between Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator and their different implementations of Web Standards didn’t ease our work.
At least I hope Google values Web Standards and basing their browser on parts of Firefox’ and Webkit’s technology will hopefully mean it will adhere to correct Web Standards implementations.
In my eyes there is no need for just another browser, but well, we will see if it works out. But I guess it will be a browser strongly tied to the Google brand and technologies and thus another tool from a monopolistic company.
Tags: browser, browser wars, Google Chrome
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