{"id":823,"date":"2008-09-01T23:29:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T23:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/razorianfly.wordpress.com\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2008-09-09T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T07:31:00","slug":"google-developing-web-kit-based-browser-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/01\/google-developing-web-kit-based-browser-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Google developing it&#8217;s own web-kit based browser &#8216;Chrome&#8217; &#8211; [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update &#8211; 02.09.08] &#8211; (18.03pm GMT)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/\">Scott McCloud<\/a> was the illustrator commissioned to draw the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=8UsqHohwwVYC&amp;printsec=frontcover\">38-page comic<\/a> which outlines the features of Google&#8217;s Chrome web browser.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google today <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/fresh-take-on-browser.html\">announced<\/a>, they had intentions to enter the fierce competition between internet web browser manufacturers, by introducing it&#8217;s own. Chrome, will be the big G&#8217;s new, open-source, web browser &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Among the features announced:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8211; New JavaScript engine called V8 for faster performance<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Special tabs&#8221; above the window, not below the address bar<br \/>\n&#8211; Address bar auto-completion<br \/>\n&#8211; Opera-like &#8220;Speed Dial&#8221; with thumbnails of your most visited 9 websites<br \/>\n&#8211; Privacy mode<br \/>\n&#8211; Web apps can be launched in their own window without addressbar\/toolbar\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The browser will run on the same technologies as Apple&#8217;s Safari currently does by incorporating the <a href=\"http:\/\/webkit.org\/\">Web Kit<\/a> interface.<\/p>\n<p>Google has taken a new slant on advertising it&#8217;s browser, publishing a comic-styled <a href=\"http:\/\/kara.allthingsd.com\/20080901\/heres-the-google-chrome-browser-comic-book-hey-microsoft-kaa-pow\/\">walk through<\/a> over at AllThingsD. The browser will initially be offered for Windows only, but Mac and Linux versions are on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/kara.allthingsd.com\/20080901\/heres-the-google-chrome-browser-comic-book-hey-microsoft-kaa-pow\/\">All Things D<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2008\/09\/01\/google-to-launch-webkit-based-web-browser-called-chrome\/\">Mac Rumors<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/fresh-take-on-browser.html\">The Google Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>R-Fly<\/p>\n<hr size=\"10\" \/>\n<hr size=\"4\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Update &#8211; 02.09.08] &#8211; (18.03pm GMT) It seems, Scott McCloud was the illustrator commissioned to draw the 38-page comic which outlines the features of Google&#8217;s Chrome web browser. Original Article: Google today announced, they had intentions to enter the fierce competition between internet web browser manufacturers, by introducing it&#8217;s own. Chrome, will be the big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118,188,295,296,298],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-announced-today","tag-browser","tag-google","tag-google-chrome","tag-googles-browser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}