Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:12:55 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "RW" <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Google Chrome Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCAEOBCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20080904012138.4ff77804@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of RW > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 5:22 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Google Chrome > > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:47:34 +0200 (CEST) > Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > > > > For most people that's already happened, except that it's > > > Adobe-Flash WWW. Google's approach of open-source software, and > > > open-extensions, leading to new standards, sounds a lot better to > > > me. > > > > except it leads to google-everything. not even a bit better than > > microsoft-everything > > There's a lot of difference. Microsoft has always tried to undermine > standards because standards give its competitors a more level-playing > field, which is what Google needs for its webapps to compete with > Microsoft's desktop applications. I don't see how that's bad for > anyone except Microsoft. The real reason that Chrome is important is because due to Microsoft enticement and pressure, a growing number of people are implementing websites that require active X controls which won't run on anything other than Windows. We are seeing a lot of this in embedded stuff but it's starting to contaminate public websites and most importantly, general software. Just by virtue of it coming from Google, a lot of end users and consumers out there will download, install and run Chrome. As a result web designers will have less incentive to jump to active X. That is very important. Ted
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