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Examining Chrome's Source Code
An anonymous reader writes "Chrome is open source, and there's clearly still some work to be done on it. In this article, Neil McAllister decided to take a peek under Chrome's hood and view it through the eyes of the developers who will improve and maintain it in the coming years. It seems Google's open source browser currently has much to offer prospective hackers — provided they use Windows. Quoting: 'The Chromium site explains how to download the source code for Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows. Unfortunately, if you're eagerly awaiting a Mac version of Chrome, you shouldn't hold your breath. As the Mac OS X area of the Chromium developer site explains, "Right now, the Mac build is a work in progress that is much closer to the start than the finish." In fact, according to the latest status report, the Chrome developers have yet to get even the browser core running under Mac OS X. Rendering actual Web pages is still a long way off, to say nothing of a usable Aqua GUI. Then again, the Linux version is in arguably even worse shape.'"
Make you wonder where the hell that so-called google's dev's firepower is gone ? I mean, that where google use to be the scariest player on the web ! is the "I'm the biggest fish in that sea and trust me we can run everything altogether" attitude was a fake afterall ?
Young people are typically drawn to free and shiny (one might say, Chromed) things.
You mean things like 'bling', is that actually free then?
Kids are by definition less intelligent then adults, and fall for all the materialism traps marketeers throw at them. Free might generate some pickup, but they really want to spend their money on shiny _expensive_ things.
jabs about linux ignored.
This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
Safari rocks only if you don't mind a low-contrast, fuzzy-looking interface (thanks for the shitty antialiasing, apple) and no autoscroll.
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He's comparing a Windows-only engine, hyperoptimized for Windows, to a three-platform engine that in recent tests is performing equally well. Get back to me when I can use V8 in a meaningful way without rebooting.
So what if they don't have to write WebKit for Mac? They didn't have to write WebKit for Windows, either! What Google are spending their time on will be the not insubstantial bits that wrap around Webkit to make it Chrome.
It's not that they just 'didn't have to write WebKit for Mac' - it's that they actively broke WebKit on Mac, so it doesn't even compile anymore. They didn't just spend their time on the not-insubstantial chrome, they spent their time hacking on WebKit in a poorly-conceived, poorly-planned, or just plain incompetent manner.