From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 06:11:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24E5106566B for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:11:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61F68FC1B for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:11:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDSK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id m846Bukd068259; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:11:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "RW" , Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:12:55 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1933 In-Reply-To: <20080904012138.4ff77804@gumby.homeunix.com.> Importance: Normal X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:11:58 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Subject: RE: Google Chrome X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:12:00 -0000 > -----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 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