{"id":173,"date":"2008-09-01T23:33:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T23:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/?p=173"},"modified":"2013-09-07T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T16:38:10","slug":"google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2008\/09\/google-chrome","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rumours have been going around the web for years about the possibility of the Google browser, with some rather wild speculation about what exactly it would be like. John Rhodes seems to be one of the earliest to float the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/webword.com\/moving\/googleclient.html\">the Google Client<\/a> in September 2001, and in August 2004, based on Google\u2019s relationship with Mozilla at the time, <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/04\/08\/the-google-browser\">Kottke predicted a Mozilla-based Google browser<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In February this year, it was reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/thetruthaboutmozilla.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/25\/the-google-browser\/\">Google had assembled a team to work on on a WebKit based browser<\/a>, then known as <em>GBrowser<\/em>.  Now just over 7 months later, all the rumours and predictions have finally been realised. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2008-09-01-n47.html\" title=\"Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project\">Google Blogoscoped announced<\/a> and leaked a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/google-chrome\/\" title=\"Google on Google Chrome - comic book\">comic book entitled Google Chrome<\/a> earlier today describing many of the innovative features developed for the new browser.  Shortly afterwards, the official Google blog <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/fresh-take-on-browser.html\">admitted that it was mistakenly released a day early<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It should be noted that the concept also includes a few ideas based on features in other browsers, such as Opera\u2019s Speed Dial, and both Firefox and Opera\u2019s address bar (a.k.a. Awesome bar), called omnibox.\r\n\r\n<\/p><p>The comic was drawn and created by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_McCloud\" title=\"Scott McCloud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\">Scott McCloud<\/a> and has been released under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.5\" title=\"Creative Commons \r\n    Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Generic\">Creative Commons by-nc-nd 2.5 licence<\/a>.  <del datetime=\"2008-09-01T23:35:33+00:00\">The comic has currently been taken down due to server load<\/del> <ins datetime=\"2008-09-01T23:35:33+00:00\">(it&#8217;s up again)<\/ins>, but I have published <a href=\"http:\/\/lachy.id.au\/dev\/2008\/google-chrome\/\">a copy of the whole comic<\/a> here for you to see it, if you haven&#8217;t already.  You can also download a <a href=\"http:\/\/lachy.id.au\/lib\/images\/2008\/google-chrome\/google-chrome.tar.gz\">tarball of all the images<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google Chrome has been announced as Google&#8217;s new web browser.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11,23,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}