[Leaplist] Google Chrome

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 9/2/08, Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> I certainly hope it rocks.  A year ago I finally gave up on
> Firefox and 
> moved to Opera.  We'll see if it's better than
> Opera.  Of course, it 
> sounds like it isn't cross platform yet, whereas Opera
> is.
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html
> What I really want is a decent client side mail client. 
> Thunderbird is 
> kind of a joke.  I love KMail, but it isn't cross
> platform (yet).  With 
> KDE4, Kontact actually builds on Windows, though you have
> to build it 
> yourself.  I'm hoping for binaries sometime next year.

You mean like Android?  ;)

While I know Google to be on the leading-edge of dynamic
web content generation and delivery, actually producing
end-user applications that are more static, supported
for years on a varied set of configurations, is more of
a question.

I.e., on Android, I regularly commented about how Google
could easily tackle the application level, but when it
came to actually building an embedded OS and all those
layers below that application-level of abstraction,
delivery and presentation, they would have little to
actually do with it -- because they don't know how.

It takes a very strong commitment to long-term code
management, release control and other details, things
that are typically foreign to and not in the web world
where people who are too slow because they manage stuff
are dead.

But the very necessary details of developing and main-
taining things like embedded OSes and desktop applications.
I ran into Google's general distain of traditional
software engineering lifecycle when they interviewed me
for precisely that desire -- someone with a strong
engineering background to bring such practices to their
infrastructure and platform.

I could tell that the people who started to interview
me wanted to have nothing to do with anyone in that
position (even if they liked me, they hated the idea of
what it entailed and would force upon them).


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