> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of RW > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 5:22 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Google Chrome > > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:47:34 +0200 (CEST) > Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > For most people that's already happened, except that it's > > > Adobe-Flash WWW. Google's approach of open-source software, and > > > open-extensions, leading to new standards, sounds a lot better to > > > me. > > > > except it leads to google-everything. not even a bit better than > > microsoft-everything > > There's a lot of difference. Microsoft has always tried to undermine > standards because standards give its competitors a more level-playing > field, which is what Google needs for its webapps to compete with > Microsoft's desktop applications. I don't see how that's bad for > anyone except Microsoft.
The real reason that Chrome is important is because due to Microsoft enticement and pressure, a growing number of people are implementing websites that require active X controls which won't run on anything other than Windows. We are seeing a lot of this in embedded stuff but it's starting to contaminate public websites and most importantly, general software. Just by virtue of it coming from Google, a lot of end users and consumers out there will download, install and run Chrome. As a result web designers will have less incentive to jump to active X. That is very important. Ted _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
