Chrome comic book
Google announced plans to release their own open-source browser, codenamed Chrome, by releasing a specially drawn comic by Scott McCloud explaining the app. Based on the existing Webkit rendering engine, Chrome will integrate not only tab-based browsing but Google Gears and a newly integrated search and address system called Omnibox.
Intended for release as an open-source project, the beta version of Google Chrome browser will be launch today - Sept 2, 2008 in more than 100 countries. The project webpage is http://www.google.com/chrome but it’s not active at time of writing. You can see Philipp Lenssen’s scans of the Chrome comic below.
Google Chrome Press Event: The Video
News of Google’s Chrome browser may have slipped out early on Monday, but that didn’t stop the company having the proper launch event at the Googleplex on Tuesday. That presentation saw Google developers walk through the functionality of Chrome and what makes it particularly special; it also gave them an opportunity to announce Chromium, which is the open-source project side of the browser.
At the Chromium project site, the source code for Chrome - including the new JavaScript V8 virtual machine - is already available. Google have also added documentation about the project and a JavaScript benchmark suite.
The video of the full presentation is available below. It’s not been edited, so at just over fifty minutes it’s a not-inconsiderable watch. You might want to skip forward to the questions & answers session, where Google representatives are asked about the potential for adverts to be integrated into Chrome.
I still prefer the intro of Chrome via the comic books version.
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