I think I get where you're coming from. Firefox is built with Mozilla's XUL and XPCOM technologies, which can be used to create custom applications other than browsers.
Chrome is pretty narrowly focused on being a browser and application platform for web-based technologies. There are several ongoing efforts where we're trying to make the web platform richer, which you can read about in the following places: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/web-platform-status http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Jean-Lou Dupont <jeanlou.dup...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > It's not clear to me how broadly useful this would be, but perhaps I > don't > > fully understand your particular use case, or what you mean by > "integration > > platform". > > Fair enough, I'll try to explain my thoughts a bit better. > > Chrome could be used as a GUI for desktop applications "replacing" > things like GTK/KDE (in reality, Chrome sits on top of GTK if I > understood correctly but bear with me one sec). > Let's say my application is closely coupled with the OS but I would > like to manage it through a browser ( a nice one such as Chrome :-). > By "closely coupled with the OS" I mean it wouldn't make sense to try > and code it in JS and have custom plugins etc. > > Does this make more sense? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-extensions@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to chromium-extensions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
