Chrome OS Introduces Aura Window Manager

An anonymous reader writes "Don't look now, but Google has officially revealed their intentions to go after Windows and OS X. Chrome OS 19 has arrived for Samsung Series 5 and Acer AC700 Chromebooks running the developer channel, and the changes it brings may shock you. The new Aura window manager has landed, bringing with it a number of features that you'd expect from a traditional OS. For starters, there’s the Shelf along the bottom of the screen. It’s set to hide when you’ve got a browser window maximized by default, but you can choose to have it always on top or auto-hide, too, just like the Windows taskbar or OS X dock."

Comments

Instead of all this new crap, why not FIX YUR BUGZ

[Barbara, not Barbie]

The spec for CSS 2.1 was laid down in 1997 - 15 years ago. Today, you're STILL lucky if you can get non-trivial pages to render the same on different browsers without all sorts of tricks and tweaks.

This is ridiculous. 15 years, and CSS 2.1 is still broken. At this rate, it's a safe bet that you won't see CSS 3x implemented properly in your lifetime.

People want new features, but more importantly, they want stuff that works. Web browsers are not application platforms, and the whole DOM tree concept is part of the problem. Sure, for a text document, but NOT for a "real program."

Apple has it right - people want apps, not web (cr)apps. Real programs.

We were stupid. Instead of a browser and its dependencies on servers, we could have spent the last 15 years building untold numbers of real internetworked applications. No worrying about facebook or google nosing around with your privacy ... but no, we listened to the "experts" at CERN rather than the people building graphical BBS systems complete with virtual worlds, animations, and sharable graphics, like 17-year-old Seth Hamilton back in 1993.

So go ahead and waste more time on Chrome and all that other crap - if a camel is a horse designed by a committee, the whole web "experience" is a turd that continues to be polished by committees of committees.

Apple will continue to make hundreds of billions, because we are too stupid to admit that the underlying design is really, really amateur hour, and that even a 17-year-old kid could (and did) do better.