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26 pointsalexk9 comments

I love the way they use the comic strip format to explain software, very fresh.

Also very 'fresh' are the javascript 'next' links which prevent me from sending individual page urls to friends. Awesome usability.

And they flicker oddly, in such a way that you can click next, see a few things happen, and then wonder if you have gone forward one page or three.

Interesting blend of marketing and informational material.

I had to laugh when I read the contrived comment of one character asking "why is this application downloading the entire Internet?" when looking at the Chrome task manager.

Look at the process list. The task is "Omnivore". This is the rumored name of the application that the NSA runs to grep through all internet traffic.

"Wouldn't it be great to start from scratch?"

Uhh, no, it wouldn't, because chances are strong you'll screw something up. Whichever technology takes the current model and extends it gracefully but usefully will succeed in taking the web another step forward.

Chrome is a browser, you know. It's the current model, extended gracefully. It's even built on top of a current engine.

They're using the phrase "start from scratch" to explain their thought process, not what they actually built at the end of that process. And that's generally okay. You can use any method you want to figure out where you'd like to go, before you try to work out how to get there via small, continuous changes to the status quo.

Never been up a dead end conceptually?

Man that was a weird thing to read. I read a lot of technical documents and a lot of web comics, but please don't combine the two. The art was... words fail me.

I found the new JS vm the most interesting part, I bet Steve Y. had something to do with that. I can't wait to read what he'll write about Chrome. I bet he's very happy right now... in his pants! (Sorry couldn't resist.)

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