Comments on: Google Chrome, WOW!!! http://www.mycee.com/blog/2008/10/05/google-chrome-wow/ the Evil Genius hard at work Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:22:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Re@PeR http://www.mycee.com/blog/2008/10/05/google-chrome-wow/comment-page-1/#comment-502 Re@PeR Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:17:35 +0000 http://blog.mycee.net/?p=142#comment-502 Firefox is still a fantastic browser, Chrome is just slightly better as it is being funded by Google, still a couple of minor bugs here and there, but that's only in in the way some AJAX scripts are being executed with the cause being badly written AJAX code or hardcoded JavaScript browser detection scripts which doesn't make provision for Chrome. Google's reason for spending so much money on developing an open source browser? I've created my own mini-image search engine as thesis last year with the idea of using the image's placement on a page relative to the text surrounding it as interpretation for what the image is, unfortunately this is work for 4000 engineers and not for one single engineer (my engine did do some level of interpretation, but nothing near as complex as I planned). Google as far as I know and have heard from inside sources, are busy with exactly such a project, indexing images and cutting out the human factor in tagging these images, to do this accurately, they need a way to fully render a page with all its JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, XHTML, Flash, etc etc etc, the idea is then to build this browser backend into the spiders or the parser in order to get more accurate data from webpages, rather than seeing it in only raw code. Give Chrome a chance, but don't let go of Firefox just yet. Firefox is still a fantastic browser, Chrome is just slightly better as it is being funded by Google, still a couple of minor bugs here and there, but that’s only in in the way some AJAX scripts are being executed with the cause being badly written AJAX code or hardcoded JavaScript browser detection scripts which doesn’t make provision for Chrome.

Google’s reason for spending so much money on developing an open source browser?

I’ve created my own mini-image search engine as thesis last year with the idea of using the image’s placement on a page relative to the text surrounding it as interpretation for what the image is, unfortunately this is work for 4000 engineers and not for one single engineer (my engine did do some level of interpretation, but nothing near as complex as I planned). Google as far as I know and have heard from inside sources, are busy with exactly such a project, indexing images and cutting out the human factor in tagging these images, to do this accurately, they need a way to fully render a page with all its JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, XHTML, Flash, etc etc etc, the idea is then to build this browser backend into the spiders or the parser in order to get more accurate data from webpages, rather than seeing it in only raw code.

Give Chrome a chance, but don’t let go of Firefox just yet.

]]> By: Francois Viljoen http://www.mycee.com/blog/2008/10/05/google-chrome-wow/comment-page-1/#comment-500 Francois Viljoen Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:58:50 +0000 http://blog.mycee.net/?p=142#comment-500 Hmmmm... aversion to change aversion to change... still using FireFox. Chrome that good hey? Damn. I'll have to try it. Hmmmm… aversion to change aversion to change… still using FireFox.

Chrome that good hey? Damn. I’ll have to try it.

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