Of all the exciting stuff that’s happening at Google, one of the things I’ve been most excited about is SPDY, Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon’s new protocol that upgrades HTTP to deal with many of the new use-cases that have strained browsers and web servers in the last couple of years.
There are some obvious advantages [...]
Tag Archives: chrome
SPDY: The Web, Only Faster
November 12, 2009 – 1:31 pm
9L30 != 9L31a
September 11, 2009 – 7:49 pm
Somehow I got out of sync with everyone else in the local distcc cluster at work. How? Weirdly, the XCode settings showed that while there were plenty of peers around to build with, they were all slightly off (har) in their OS version number, and therefore returned the dreaded “Incompatible Service”.
Some googling revealed that Apple [...]
Benchmarking Is Hard: Reddit Edition
June 24, 2009 – 7:22 pm
In which I partially defend Microsoft and further lament the state of tech “journalism”.
A very short open letter:
Dear interwebs:
Please stop mis-representing the results of benchmarks. Or, at a minimum, please stop blogging the results in snide language that shows your biases. It makes the scientific method sad.
Thank you.
Alex Russell
Today’s example of failure made manifest comes [...]
Chrome 2.0: Bam!
May 21, 2009 – 2:01 pm
No less than the Times has chastised the Chrome team’s marketing efforts, noting unsubtly that for months now we’ve been burying the lead: Chrome’s killer feature isn’t that it’s got an awesome UI (it does) or that it supports new web features…no, the real story that we haven’t been telling well is that it’s wicked [...]
Perspective Is Not A Liquid Asset
May 5, 2009 – 1:11 pm
ZDNet has an article out discussing a study that shows that that Chrome’s (Open Source) auto-update system makes the browser more secure than the alternatives. Disclosure: Google co-authored the study. I work for Google, on Chrome. Caveat emptor.
Back when I did security for a living, I quickly noted a distinction between those who saw things [...]
Omaha Goes Open Source
April 10, 2009 – 4:01 pm
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 the [...]
“Not your mother’s JavaScript”
March 18, 2009 – 1:59 pm
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 Alexander’s [...]
Chrome 2.0 Beta
March 17, 2009 – 3:59 pm
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.
March 9, 2009 – 4:24 pm
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 amazing work [...]
The Appalling State of Tech Journalism: Reflected in the Chrome
September 2, 2008 – 9:09 pm
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 the [...]
The Importance Of Chrome
September 1, 2008 – 4:28 pm
The rumors seem to have been true…the gBrowser is real. And it looks like it will simply be awesome. To my friends who have been toiling on it in deep secrecy for so very long, congratulations. Yes, yes, more to do, blah blah…screw that. You shipped! Huzzah!
So what does Chrome mean for those of us [...]
