Google Chrome
Google came up with a really cool idea about a new WebKit based browser with process separation and suitable to run “webapps”. I’m non plussed cause I know all about Fluid.app and have that already.
The V8 javascript engine on the other end seems really interesting. On the even other hand, compiling javascript into machine code sounds scary. But it will probably be exceedingly fast so it might all be very interesting in killing off stuff like Air.
On a side note, Google decided, off the cuff, to release a desktop browser pointed at webapps based on the same render engine used on Android and shipping with Gears. All this happens within weeks of release of Android. This probably means a shift in focus in the whole google apps away from Firefox to Google Chrome and a shiny new interface to be released in sync with the Android 1.0 launch. Bad news for Mozilla. Maybe good news for Symbian. Who knows!
