September 4, 2008
Now it is two days since my first post on Chrome has appeared. Let’s see some statistics of our blog visitors (Google Analytics, of course :-)
Some conclusions:
- Firefox is over-represented: although Firefox has a good 20%+ or so world-wide market share, the 52%+ result here indicates that Firefox users are open to new browser technologies (no surprise there)
- Safari: ditto, although I suspect that some of the Safari visits are indeed Chrome visits before Google Analytics got smart enough to recognize it
- Chrome and Opera: Chrome got even with Opera in two and a half days. That is a statement, and might get Opera people a bit worried about market share.
Stop the presses!
A few hours (like 6) later we have a somewhat different picture!
Chrome gained 7%+ and it seems that my Safari-Analytics-Chrome theory has some substance as Safari is down markedly, while the other players are virtually unchanged.
Day 4: Chrome is second
So we are at day++, and the results are:
Chrome again gained 7%+ and is second only to Firefox, slightly edging out IE. Not bad for a four day older isn’t it?
September 3, 2008
I did a very quick speed test to see how fast Chrome is. BTW I did notice instabilities with the Flash plugin.
I run three benchmarks (on the same machine, all browsers open, running the benchmark only in one at a time):
The first test is more JavaScript oriented, where the new V8 virtual machine can shine, the other two test graphical abilities.
And the results are…
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September 2, 2008
The web is abuzz today with Google’s entrance to the web browser war-field with its shiny new Chrome beta. You’ll find plenty of coverage elsewhere (Google’s blog is here, the comic strip (more about it later) starts here), I’d only like to focus on one conspiracy theory aspect: the first version of Google OS.
First of all, do read the comic strip by Scott McCloud and the Chrome Team. It is in itself a piece of marketing art and although its primary intended audience may be journalists and less technical people, it is a statement of how serious Google is about Chrome and full of hints for conspiracy theorists among us.
So some of my first thoughts will follow…
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June 2, 2008
Finally it is up & running! Our GanttProto demo application is up on appspot.com. My goal was to see how such a complex visual control can be done in the browser after one developer told me that it was impossible :-) I did have a suspicion that it is doable, based on my experience with the Calendar control, but you never know… :-) At the same token it is also a good test-case for our PMAP Grid control (coming in another announcement soon).
Read on for technical details…
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November 16, 2006
I just wrote yesterday about the issue of AJAX apps being a challenge for searches and how one could go about fixing it, and today’s news are around sitemaps.org created by no others than Goolge and Yahoo! (with Microsoft’s support):
“Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.” (sitemaps.org)
Their solution does not in itself solve the AJAX problem but can augment my proposal quite nicely ;-).
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