Comments on: My Wild Guesses, Speculation and Unfounded Opinions about Google Chrome

By: William Lacy

William Lacy — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:38:26 +0000

OGGTV.COM and other OGG/THEORA sites, need OGG video playback on google chrome, this will help everyone greatly in the OGG community.

By: media kingdom

media kingdom — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:21:07 +0000

should be interesting to see if Chrome works more efficiently than FireFox… if it’s faster than Firefox, since isn’t IE, then i’ll use it

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Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:24:08 +0000

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By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:18:51 +0000

Personally, I’d love to know what Apple think of this. I assume that having built WebKit from KHTML, they have a fair bit of influence over the project direction. What does it mean to have Google coming in throwing their own influence around?

By: dave

dave — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:53:43 +0000

No-one seems to have pointed out that Google is different from the other browser makers because they actually make money from web sites.

When Apple had webkit and the iPhone in the oven they began to remove Flash from their website properties and make it so that they work beautify in Safari (and others) with just web standards.

You can imagine Google doing the same with great success and progressively enhancing YouTube, GMail etc.

Personally I’m intrigued to see what the video support will be like. Coming from the owner of Youtube, Ogg Theora support would be big news and given the seething hatred towards plugin writers that runs through the Chrome comic, you’d think they’d build something in rather than rely on 3rd parties.

(Of course they could just licence H.264 and let the other users of their ‘open source’ worry about the licence fees)

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Chrome may be great, but will it matter? » mathewingram.com/work | — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:30:41 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:59:19 +0000

It all depends on whether Google pays OEMS for distribution as the default browser.

If they do, it really will be taking on Microsoft and changing the marketplace. If not, Chrome might sadly end up competing with Firefox / Safari, leaving a critical mass of people that don’t realise or care what their browser is to stick with IE.