Google co-founder expects Chrome for Android
Google co-founder Sergey Brin speaks at the Chrome browser launch event.
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News)MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Google's new Chrome browser is for PCs today, but company co-founder Sergey Brin expects the technology will make its way to Android, the company's mobile phone operating system and software suite.
Chrome and Android were developed largely separately, Brin said in an interview at the Chrome launch event Tuesday. "We have not wanted to bind one's hands to the other's," Brin said. But you can expect that to change now that both projects are public and nearing their first final releases.
"Probably a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack," Brin said, pointing to JavaScript improvements as one area.
And the brand name likely will follow. "My guess is we'll have 'Chrome-like' or something similar," he said.
Chrome and Android's current browser both already employ WebKit, an open-source project for the process of interpreting the HTML code that makes up a Web page and rendering it on a screen.
Stephen Shankland writes about a wide range of technology and products, but has a particular focus on browsers and digital photography. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered Google, Yahoo, servers, supercomputing, Linux and open-source software, and science. E-mail Stephen, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/stshank.
"probably...."
at least they share the same underpinnings.
They are not going help produce a compelling alternative to the iphone with android if they don't take a user centric focus instead of a "we've got so big we've got no idea what's going on at each ends of the campus" approach.
An integrated user experience has never been Googles' strong point. I'll be amazed if Android can hand together at all with the free for all it's going to be,
Also I definately can see the V8 JSVM in Chrome being migrated into Android. (Editors' note: Spam link deleted.)
Chrome is spyware mascaraing as a browser.
http://kreuzer33.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/google-android-to-be-trimmed-with-chrome/
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by untactical_theonlyone
December 2, 2008 9:23 AM PST
- Every new development carries with it a plethora of criticism and arguable complaints but in most cases, it's either from lack of understanding how something works against personally researching the desired topic before installing something that sets itself apart from the rest. It's a new breath of life that we now have from Google and for those of us who are caught up in the Windows arena vs Linux or Mac, we can sigh a little easier knowing that we truly have something exceptional. IE served its purpose when Microsoft introduced it back when Windows 95 came out but since then, new forms of control meant increasing their updates many of which already had errors in the updates that meant that they would just keep adding onto them hoping their problem would disappear over time. Unwittingly, Microsoft created its own backlash when it was punished back in 1987 for its java script abuse and no-one really had much say in that. In the present time, if Google Chrome is the way developers will look toward the future then with relative ease, we can all feel safe with the additional enhancements that are built into this challenging browser. I wonder though, can any plug ins be incorporated from Mozilla into Chrome which may help iron out some missing linkage. Hat's Off to the boy's at the development office and those two smart boys who started out from a garage.
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