Tag Archives: chrome

Omaha Goes Open Source

Google Updater, aka “Omaha”, has gone Open Source! This is the auto-update system that’s key to keeping Chrome secure by always ensuring that the version you’re running is the freshest it can be. It’s huge for the Omaha team to be out in the open, particularly given how many inaccurate articles have been penned about [...]

“Not your mother’s JavaScript”

chromeexperiments.com is up! Trying out the experiments on the Chrome 2.0 beta or Safari 4′s beta feels like the early days of the web all over again, in a good way. New things seem possible…like there’s stuff we can do now that was off limits before. Beautiful stuff, particularly Dean McNamee’s Monster and Colorscube, Ryan [...]

Chrome 2.0 Beta

While you’re waiting for the Dojo 1.3 release candidate to shake out the last few bugs, might I recommend some instant gratification by way of the new Chrome 2.0 Beta?.

Beautiful.

So if you’re using Windows and reading this blog, I can easily assume you’re using (or at least have installed) a Chrome Dev Channel build. Drive that bad boy over here and behold the beauty of @font-face. Awww yeah. Thanks, as always, go to Chrome’s good friends over at Apple and WebKit who are doing [...]

The Appalling State of Tech Journalism: Reflected in the Chrome

Taking a page (or is it a post?) from Brad DeLong’s long-running laments on the state of journalism in general, I have been reading the coverage of the Chrome announcement and keep asking myself “why, oh why, can’t we have better tech journalism?” Take, for example, ZDNet’s gutter-to-gutter coverage which, I’m afraid, simply ends in [...]