Chrome != the web.
I'll take webapps that works in ANY browser over "webapps" that works with Chrome ONLY any day of the 2013 year.
Embrace extend extinguish the web Google? Thanks but no thanks!
I'll take webapps that works in ANY browser over "webapps" that works with Chrome ONLY any day of the 2013 year.
Embrace extend extinguish the web Google? Thanks but no thanks!
It's not Google's fault that the other browser vendors are not as fast as them. They will eventually catch up and we'll all have a better web. I'm really glad the situation has changed so much since the days of "IE 6 only" and later "we all have to wait for the slow learning kid, IE". For a web developer these days are truly exciting.
The reason why they're not standardized and that nobody pushes for a standard too is simple. Most of them are very much tied to Chrome itself, instead of being tied to features, and have no sense being used by another browser.
This looks like a much more sane API: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI
Incidentally, it comes from the guys who actually changed the "IE 6 only" to what it is today, incl. the chrome dominance that resulted from it...