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15 Dec 09

11 Dec 09

Chromium Blog: Web Sockets Now Available In Google Chrome

The Web Sockets API enables web applications to handle bidirectional communications with server-side process in a straightforward way. Developers have been using XMLHttpRequest ("XHR") for such purposes, but XHR makes developing web applications that communicate back and forth to the server unnecessarily complex. XHR is basically asynchronous HTTP, and because you need to use a tricky technique like long-hanging GET for sending data from the server to the browser, simple tasks rapidly become complex. As opposed to XMLHttpRequest, Web Sockets provide a real bidirectional communication channel in your browser. Once you get a Web Socket connection, you can send data from browser to server by calling a send() method, and receive data from server to browser by an onmessage event handler. A simple example is included below.

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You can use Google Chrome and pywebsocket to start implementing Web Socket-enabled web applications now. We're more than happy to hear your feedback not only on our implementation, but also on API and/or protocol design. The protocol has not been completely locked down and is still in discussion in IETF, so we are especially grateful for any early adopter feedback.

By Extension, Chrome Battles Firefox

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But perhaps even more problematic for Mozilla is the extension submission process. With Chrome, for the majority of extensions, once you submit them, they are instantaneously live in the Extensions Gallery. The exceptions are if they use native code or access the file system, Google reserves the right to review them (which basically amounts to the developer signing an agreement that they have no malicious intent, and sending it to Google).

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09 Dec 09

Official Google Blog: Faster apps for a faster web: introducing Speed Tracer

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08 Dec 09

11 Chrome Extensions, For Starters

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07 Dec 09

Chromium Blog: Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast?

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29 Nov 09

Google Opens Chrome Extensions To Developers, Will Only Review Certain Ones

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If you are a developer working on an extension, you can simply agree to Google’s terms and upload your extension to the gallery right now. One of those terms is that Google has the right to review your extension before it’s published, but they are saying they will only do that if it includes “include an NPAPI component and all content scripts that affect “file://” URLs.” Google goes on to note that “For security reasons, developers of these types of extensions will need to provide some additional information before they can post them in the gallery.” Fair enough.

28 Nov 09

Aviary’s Chrome Extension Proves That These Add-Ons Are Going To Be Awesome

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But the best part of Aviary’s extension is that it doesn’t slow down Chrome. While the actual Aviary editor takes up some of your CPU, the extension itself ads no bloat to the regular browsing experience. I actually have three extension installed right now and none are slowing Chrome (Chromium) at all. This gives me great hope.

A few notes about Aviary’s plug-in: First, it’s not available yet only because Google has yet to launch its Extension Gallery. Supposedly, that’s coming soon for end-users but for now extension support is limited to developers being able to upload

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21 Nov 09

Screenshot API - Chromium-extensions | Google Groups

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Issue 14760 - chromium - Screenshot functionality for JS Extension API - Project Hosting on Google Code

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20 Nov 09

Rather than support Android apps and other sorts of apps, there is only one kind of app Google is interested in: the Web app. Chrome OS is all about making Web apps the only apps you will ever need. Which kind of makes you wonder how long we’ll need Android apps, or iPhone apps for that matter, because you know it is only a matter of time before a phone comes out running on Chrome OS.

Live From Google’s Chrome OS Event

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This includes a full product rundown and details about the formal launch, which is expected to occur early next year.
We aren’t launching it today and not beta today. But we’ve made progress. As of today the code will be completely open. We’re excited to announce this.
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- 3) Extensions are coming. We’ve taken our time to do this right. We have more details coming about extensions with certain partners. These update automatically.
- HTML5, we want the web to apps as well as they do natively. We’ve been working hard on this. We want web apps to be able to use system resources the same way. Graphics is one example, we need a way to access to the GPU. Audio/video playback is key. And we need apps to work offline. We’re working with the other major browser vendors to make sure HTML5 comes along.
- We’re moving from laptops down to netbooks on the regular computer end. On the other side we’re going from phones to tablets – these are all computers. Laptops are becoming more like phones too – always on connectivity.
- We focus on three things. Speed. Simplicity. Security.
  
  We want Chrome OS to be blazingly fast, basically instant-on. Chrome (the browser) on Chrome OS is going to be much faster.
- What happens if you plug in a camera? It simply opens a window with the camera’s files. I can pull any picture and open it in a new browser window.
- We want this to feel much more like a television than a computer. All Chrome OS devices will be based on solid-state storage.
- The File System: It’s always auto-updated. There are a few areas of the hard disk. The root partition is read-only. This is locked down, which is unusual in OSes today. User data is always encrypted. This is key for safety of your data. So important if you lose your machine.
  
  All user data is synced with the cloud at all times. If you lose your machine, it’s not really gone.
- While netbooks are popular, but some have usability issues. We want to make slightly larger netbooks with full sized keyboards and big trackpads.
- If you are a developer and have the right type of netbook (and a screwdriver) you can get Chrome OS running today.
- Q: What netbook are you running this on right now (for the demo)?
  
  SP: That’s an Eee PC.
- Q: Will there be an app store? What about driver certification? What about editing apps – like editing photos?
  
  SP: We will have more details about the idea of an app store down the line. We care about web apps – on the web there are hundreds of millons of applications.
- SP: And we’re investing in new tech to make web apps run just like desktop apps. Chrome OS will also influence Chrome (the browser).
- Q: Virtualization, can you run it now?
  
  MP: Sure, you could build it and run it in a virtual machine. That’s a great way to compile and debug.
- SP: Independent of Chrome OS we’re all about moving web apps forward – including things like Photoshop on the web. Android apps currently will not run on Chrome OS.
- Q: What does Chrome OS do that other browsers on other OSes can’t do?
  
  SP: Most of what we show here you can do in other browser. But there are new user concepts we’re exposing, app tabs, panels, and there will be more.
- Q (from Steve): Realtime notifications on every page?
  
  SB: I think we definitely need support for that in the browser. And especially in Chrome OS. Hopefully we can solve the problem of chatting when you’re not signed in to Google.
  
  MP: There is a new notification API standard that is being worked on now.
- Im the perfect target market for this. I do my work on a main computer and travel a reasonable amount with my netbook.
  
  I use the netbook for email and web apps and some music. All of which Chrome OS can do…
- Be creative, some of the things being described here as limitations can surely be overcome rather easily. Do you really think it will stop here? The next thing is Chrome running on your little fileserver at home (NAS), in your TV, etc. This opens up so many fantastic opportunities.
- Chrome OS Is more of a thin client to Google Apps.
- Exactly… Just like windows is a place holder for office. They _used_ to have different approaches – not anymore. I barely distinguish between the two companies anymore.
  
  Here you are fed with Win/Office, there are you fed with Chrome/G-Apps. Here you pay upfront, there you pay through ads, etc.
- The funnything is that MS is dramatically more open then Google at this point. Is there a place for Google within an MS world? – of course, it’s mostly open.
  
  Is there a place for Apple/MS within a Google world? – not even a link.
  
  You login to Gmail, implicitly pre-forced with Google apps, without any option to integrate anything else. Same with Chrome, Chrome OS, and other Google online facility.
  
  Google is the closest web eco-system today. Nothing but Evil.
- Did you miss the part about it being Open Source? Dell, Acer, Gateway, HP, anyone making Netbooks can put links to whatever cloud based apps they want. They don’t HAVE to link to Gmail, Google Docs, etc.
  
  I suspect they will voluntarily based on a cut of ad revenue. But the point remains, anyone can build a non-Google netbook using Chrome OS.
  
  You can’t do that with Windows.
- “the ultimate Goal of Google, which is to index all the worlds information”
  
  Yes, and you can’t do that unless all the information is online. Or, even better, online and inside our data stores.