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Google Is Building a Way To Launch Chrome Apps Without Installation
An anonymous reader writes "Google really wants Chrome apps to take off. Not only has the company added rich notifications, in-app payments, and an app launcher into its browser, but now it's developing ephemeral apps that launch by just clicking a link. There are two separate components here. Ephemeral apps (you can enable this under the chrome://flags/#enable-ephemeral-apps flag) let you try a Chrome app before installing it. Linkable ephemeral apps (under the chrome://flags/#enable-linkable-ephemeral-apps flag) meanwhile allow you to launch said apps from hyperlinks."
Am I the only one thinking that Google are basically making Chrome into another VM? Its "apps" are programs that the Chrome VM can run, JavaScript is the main language you use to code stuff for it, but that can even be compiled into obscured JS which is about as readable as bytecode (or less), the DOM is the mechanism you use to create the UI, etc. Apart from being arguably faster, what are the fundamental differences between what Google wants Chrome to be, and Java?
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
Alternatively, "chrapps" for short.
Since it's Genesis 3:14, representing pi, we can gather that the serpent's original shape was circular. What comes to mind when you think circular? The google chrome logo of course! The fall of humanity was caused by Adam being tempted by chrome to click the devil's ephemeral app link on his apple macbook. The proof is all there.
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I'm as guilty as anyone else, but when MS windows did this it was a major security problem, is this really any different?
Launch a program by clicking a link? Did we not call people retards every time they did this?
It seems like every new platform just repeats the same crap from every previous platform. Vendor bloatware should have been the blatant warning sign.
Want-O-Meter(tm) switched on? Check.
Batteries? Fully charged.
Sensitivity setting? Max!
Reading? Not the faintest fuck of a flicker.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
This isn't true at all... I made a "Mirror" app yesterday (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mirror-tds/fapfdhoailemkonegpjdhngmjfpmdjdj) on my Chromebook which works just as well as a "flipped webcam image" offline as it does online.
My other app to graph relationships between objects (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tensity-grapher/keomiemppflejbjkafeaepbdhigggifd) also works offline.
As does Google Docs (Offline), as the calculator, as does a timer, and my calendar, and many of the apps I have installed (I'm frequently offline).
I don't have a GSM subscription (I use wifi), Google Chrome doesn't sell such a subscription (try it with your own laptop, with whatever wifi/service you have), and many apps work without internet connection.
I am a Chrome app developer (a bad one, but whatever), and all of the apps I've made work offline.
Put everything in the cloud! WebOS is the future! HTML5 apps should replace native apps!
Everyone who ever agreed with any of this crap has only themselves to blame. Also, no bitching when they change the layout/functionality/something else you can't control because IT'S NOT YOUR SYSTEM.
I called my brother on this multiple times and now he finally see the "cloud apps" for what they are, a farce!
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
It was a bad idea for Windows to autoplay CDs and automatically run any attachment sent to you in an e-mail, because it can't sandbox apps in a foolproof way. Chrome can't sandbox webapps in a foolproof way either, so it's a bad idea to be able to run random programs by clicking on a link.
It mostly works the way that you have represented. The majority of your post in on the back-end propagation of updates, which works well, and obviously doesn't work when offline. Generally apps work offline by default (like a saved webpage), unless your app needs to reach to an online site.
Windows allowed the running of applications from Internet Explorer, remember? You even get the option still of running an application or saving it to disk when you click on a link to an executable program. And we've spent what, the better part of 2 decades trying to figure out reliable ways of PREVENTING this! Because it's so commonly abused to get people to run malware and other undesirable software. And now we want to make another attempt at letting people run anything J. Random Blackhat throws their way? Thanks, but no thanks.
So, after the adblocker we now also need the appblocker when browsing.
While niggers in their native setting are still chucking spears at each other and niggers taken out of their native setting are chucking bullets and gang signs at each other. But you're not supposed to notice. That would make you a bad terrible person and we will brand you "racist" to make you a modern heretic
I'm gonna go with another theory: repeatedly using 'nigger' in a sentence to describe dark-skinned people is the likely cause of you being branded a 'racist'.
..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?