Tag Archives: google chrome

Musings on Chrome, the rebirth of the location bar and privacy in the cloud

Sep 2nd – 6pm

Imagine a browser of the web, by the web, and for the web. Not simply a thick client application that simply opens documents with the http:// protocol instead of file://, but one that runs web applications (efficiently!), that plays the web, that connects people across the boundaries of the silos and gives them local-like access [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Citizen-centric Web, Civil liberties, Digital Identity, Open source, Technology, Web building | Also tagged , , | Comments (26)

Google Chrome and the future of browsers

Sep 1st – 11pm

News came today confirming Google’s plans for Chrome, its own open source browser based on Webkit. This is big news. As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t get much bigger than this, at least in my little shed on the internet. I’ve been struggling to come to grips with my thoughts on this since I [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Mozilla, Technology, Web building | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (49)