Obligatory Google Chrome Post
September 3, 2008 on 4:01 am | In Flex, Programming | 2 CommentsWhat the hell… everyone has been ordered by a Higher Power (probably the same one that runs AA) to blog about Google Chrome… guess I’d better do that. But you’ve read 1,845 other posts about Google Chrome already so I’ll be brief.
1. Read the Scott McCloud comic — great to see such a graphic talent explaining technology and not overly dumb it down.
2. Installed Google Chrome in VMware Fusion on my Mac.
3. HTML looked great — no CSS or rendering issues that I could see. The UI looked clean with many innovative usability features that do not jump out and clutter one’s screen. Slightly sluggish though.
4. Ran my new Flex/Flash application which makes heavy use of audio. App sucked up 100% of CPU running inside Chrome (which does not happen in IE or FF under VMware Fusion) and became semi-unresponsive.
Premature, Rushed Conclusion: very compelling UI ideas, great execution in the HTML realm, but some distance to go in terms of how OS resources are used by plugins, what with the heavyweight processes and all.
I’m sure I’ll be revising my opinion as more info comes out and I learn more!
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chrome doesn’t seem to like adobe feeds. every time i click on a feed item i get:
Error 320 (net::ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE): Unknown error.
Comment by PaulH — September 3, 2008 #
Corporative theory: they build chrome to cut off all plugins.
I am kidding, but suspicious. Let’s see.
Comment by funkyboy — September 9, 2008 #