Comments on: Google’s Chrome – A New Browser, A New Application Platform http://yeksoon.neusteps.com/2008/09/02/googles-chrome-a-new-browser-a-new-application-platform/ Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:31:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Smack MacDougal http://yeksoon.neusteps.com/2008/09/02/googles-chrome-a-new-browser-a-new-application-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-1269 Smack MacDougal Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:52:15 +0000 http://yeksoon.neusteps.com/?p=99#comment-1269 *Yawn* REBOL has done this for years and better than the hype being spun from Google. [see: http://www.rebol.com ] Unless there is an separate protocol handler that accepts any protocol request and returns replies to be rendered in a browser, ftp tree, email client, and more, then you do not have a "platform". Rather, you have a browser, still. On a side note, Google Chrome seems to have swiped the best features of Opera 9.5x [see: http://www.opera.com ] *Yawn*

REBOL has done this for years and better than the hype being spun from Google. [see: http://www.rebol.com ]

Unless there is an separate protocol handler that accepts any protocol request and returns replies to be rendered in a browser, ftp tree, email client, and more, then you do not have a “platform”.

Rather, you have a browser, still.

On a side note, Google Chrome seems to have swiped the best features of Opera 9.5x [see: http://www.opera.com ]

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