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Comment by gruseom | Hacker News Reader

The beauty of this is that if IE10 is actually faster than Chrome, then Chrome has fulfilled its mission perfectly.

"Faster" is not the holy grail metric. Standard compliance and well-thought-out interoperability are high on my list.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to use a dog of a browser, either, but in modern times with dual-core this and 8GB that, one would probably have to actually work at it in order to have a genuinely slow browser.

It's easier than you'd think.

I think the Google folks will disagree with you :D

I think they will agree, the availability of good browsers means their web apps work great everywhere.

yeah, that was the actual intent of Chrome as far as I understand it and it has worked.

Look at Firefox 4, you can't say it wasn't influenced by Chrome. And the fact that Microsoft is now trying to move faster with IE10 already being announced is probably also largely influenced by Chrome's fast paced development.

We now have a better faster web. We just need it to be standardized a little more (Come on Microsoft, please add WebGL support)

Except for when they deliberately cripple them for Opera users :\

True, but MS will always try to steer people toward their own services, so it's not a complete win. But definitely better than having people on IE6 trying to use Gmail, or even search for that matter.

How is that any different from what Google does? or Apple for that matter?

From Google's perspective?

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