Google Chrome and comic books

Well the big news in the computing world recently is that Google have announced a new web browser which is available as a beta download.  Google's surprise new web browser is called Google Chrome and according to Google is built from scratch to meet the demands of todays Internet.

Open Source

Actually built from scratch is not entirely accurate as it reuses a number of existing open source technologies, including Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox. In fact the new browser is also going to be open source,  but why a new browser? Well as Google's blog explains:

"We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build."

So what are the new things that have resulted from this complete rethink?  Well probably the main thing is that it allows for a multi-threaded approach which will allows each tab to run as a separate process. This will mean it is faster, more memory efficient, should make it more stable and limits any problem to a specific tab only and not the whole browser.  The same approach is applied to the security as well.

Comic Book

What I really liked though is the explaination of some of the technical and design features through the use of a comic book. It seems like quite a nice visual way of explaining technical ideas and one that could be used quite effectively by anyone wanting to get technical ideas across to an audience. From an Information Management perspective I think it could be quite effective as a way for explaining both the value of IM and the need for appropriate information behaviours.

Have you looked at Google's comic? What do you think?

Comments

[Checkers Tips]

Google has released chrome in a hurry without doing last minute checking. A lot of security vulnerabilities are coming up though. And I also see they’ve released an updated version of chrome just after one week of the chrome launch. Im sure more updates are to continue.