Google Chrome
On September 2, 2008 Google Chrome was released. Many were instantly excited and a few of us were instantly annoyed because our first thought was “one more browser to check our web sites sites in”.
I downloaded it immediately to check it out. I expect much tighter and flashier design elements from the browser named “Chrome”, but instead it looks plain and boring. I don’t mind the minimalism, but I would like a little personality. Beyond the design though I am pleased with the features. I love how there is URL bar can also be used to enter a search and I definitely noticed that is very really fast. It opens in an instant and I haven’t noticed any delays when using the browser where I have to wait while it stops to “thinks” about what to do.
I’ve been developing a fairly complicated web site over the past three weeks and think it’s a good test for how Chrome interprets CSS. The bottom line is that the release of Chrome did not complicate the development at all. The only wierd thing I rand into was that the very first line of the stylesheet needed to be:
@charset “utf-8″;
If you had anything else in line 1, even a comment, the font-family you defined in the body tag for the web site would be ignored and your text would default to Times New Roman.
Download Google Chrome: http://www.google.com/chrome
See the list of features for Chrome: http://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en-US/features.html