Today morning i read an incredible news … News about Google Chrome – an open source browser based on Mozilla Firefox and WebKit. It’s got tonnes of improvements specially in the areas of speed, security and memory. It’s got a virtual machine V8. I haven’t tried it out yet ( can’t wait though ), I just read their comic strip on their official blog, but for me the thought looming on my head are the implications of this. Microsoft unfortunately couldn’t take much advantage of it’s IE browser, now it seems to loose out completely in browser war. Here is what i think are the implications of this new browser.
1> Microsoft finally admits that it’s a looser. It just can win the web/browser war anymore and slowly the market share of IE drop from 70-75% t0 30-35%.
2> As the major browser are the open source, standard based browser, there is an explosion of functionality and capability long promised, but held back in these browsers primarily due to IE dominance. The browser becomes the “application’s platform” rather than just document( Web 2.0 ).
3> I see Opera joining Firefox, and working on firefox base and putting the good stuff of opera in firefox.
4> I see Apple leading WebKit in a different direction.
5> With Google Gears, the browser starts becoming peer to peer or decentralized pockets of computing.
Imagine small parts of application server spread out into the browser of it’s users.
5> I see browser war emerging again from it’s ashes. Microsoft – Mozilla – Opera – Apple – Google – Yahoo all fight to control the browser space, though everybody working on the common goal of standardizing the web ( except you know who ).
6> I see Web Application Science as a major in Universities and colleges.
7> I see semantic web.
What do you see ?
I love to see the Google Chrome. But even firefox was popular, promoted by Google and more effecient. It was an open source too. But it did not overtake Internet Explorer. Lets see
Comment by Danny — September 2, 2008 @ 5:48 am