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Jealous of Windows users and their Google Chrome? Build Chromium on OS X

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Currently, the prerequisites don't fully build so you won't find an executable.

I was less excited when I got to this part.

Seeing that cross-platform support really is in progress (albeit incomplete) and not just a hypothetical goal reassures me that Google is truly serious about seeing Chrome become a sustainable open-source project.

My initial fear upon hearing the release announcement was that this was intended exclusively as a salvo against IE8 on Windows, and that Google just wanted to further needle Microsoft. If they're willing to invest engineering resources in support for less-dominant platforms, it suggests very strongly that they really do want to drive the state of the art for browser implementations forward across the board.

I doubt that Google began building this to compete with IE8 when it was announced given how slowly they build stuff ;)

I bet its more a happy confluence of events that so much browser news has been happening of late. I think most browser "creators" kind of had roughly the same ideas year(s?) back and decided to move in the same direction since everyone is using the same web and facing largely the same problems.

For port status see http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-prioriti...

Is that Chromium the system for interactive rendering on clusters of graphics workstations or Chromium the open-source browser project? I guess if you're Google you can take whatever name you want.

And Hacker News continues its downward spiral into Diggian/Redditian inanity...

Why? This is a site for hackers--here's some great code, it builds somewhat for OS X, and the kind of people that read this site are exactly the kind of people who are knowledgeable enough to work with the code and port it over. Whatever happened to the spirit of open source? It's like it became cool to say that every increasingly popular social new site is Digg/Reddit-like.

Actually, this is a rather hackish post.

Funny you should mention Digg/Reddit given the nature of your other comment on this thread.

Note to people, the guy who submitted this is a jackass. This will not build a Chrome app for Mac OS X, it'll merely build some non-executable components.

Thanks for the name calling. Where's your hacker spirit?

Your post is misleading. You cannot build a usable application for OS X.

http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-prioriti...

Given that this is hacker news, "build" doesn't just mean "compile an app that others have provided for you."

It also means build the application, as in, here is an effort that is in progress to create something, and would you like to lend a hand.

True, but in the context of "Jealous of Windows users and their Google Chrome?" it is certainly misleading.

I hadn't considered that. You're right. The title was inappropriately... loaded with opinion that was unrelated to the actual content of the link.

get off your high pedestal and just don't upmod the story, will you?

If you left out the insult your comment probably would have been upmodded...

I wonder if everyone insulted each other gratuitously insults would lose their impact, like cussing has?

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