The Google Chrome press release comic book, by Scott McCloud, looks like a space opera at times. Example: The screenshot on the right shows project manager Brian Rokowski as lead tenor and Chrome as … a dove.
Nicholas Carr, who has a formidable command of buzzwords, calls it “the first cloud browser” and John Resig, javascript guru and lead developer of jQuery, is excited about it’s implications for web development. Wired magazine also has an excellent article on the inside story of Chrome.
Yesterday I was asked, “how long will it take Chrome to beat Firefox in adoption?“. Whether it was by design or accident the Firefox team created not only a browser, but a platform. This makes them fairly well entrenched.
Most early adopters that use Firefox are hooked on one extension or another. For web developers, this is especially true. If Chrome is to gain traction, developers will have to have an incentive write software for it as a platform.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if we see a Chrome developer challenge, similar to the Android challenge, where developers are offerd cash rewards for the best applications developed for a platform.
