Another Browser?
Google has announced (albeit a little early for it’s own taste) that they have created a new browser called Chrome. I think that’s cool, but this will be another browser to test our sites with and a different Document Object Model to fix problems for (sorry, ending with a preposition).
CSS is just not rendered the same in every browser. I can only imagine the differences that border colors will experience in a Google browser. Just take a look using different browsers at my post on CSS borders; the differences are rather astounding.
But a New Browser Built from the Ground Up?
However, it is pretty exciting to have a new browser built from the ground up accounting for lots of multimedia and dynamic pages. Apparently, this browser is much more stable and they are able to test it usings 100s of thousands of pages (that have already been indexed with their own spiders). Pretty cool testing abilities.
Many of the new, exciting features are enumerated on Google’s comic book. It does seem pretty exciting and I am anxious to use it.
Plugins?
The thing I really like about Firefox is the plugin capability. I can use my browser to keep track of my favorite RSS feed, keep track of online research, and play music from iTunes. Will that be available with the Chrome browser?
Google is opening up the code to anyone. I hope the open source community is able to port many of the Firefox plugins to Chrome. What do you think will happen?
Download this Puppy
You can now download the browser at http://www.google.com/chrome/. Let me know what you think.