Attackr.com » Developer Portal for web designers, developers and programmers http://www.attackr.com Come To Share, Come To Learn Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:09:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Google Chrom(ium) http://www.attackr.com/google-chromium/ http://www.attackr.com/google-chromium/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:00:57 +0000 conartistdesign http://www.attackr.com/?p=233 Two months since the release of Google Chrome, Google’s Web Browser, Mac users have been awaiting the Mac relsease, and it seems as if it will never come. But there is a solution. The profound company of Code Weavers, the makers of the very successful Crossover (Wine), released Chromium shortly after Google’s Windows only release of Chrome.

Chromium is essentially a individual virtualization of Google Chrome with the Wine core. Chromium has sweet perks but some downsides as well. The Browser is a virtualization and therefore has the XP/Vista fell to it, creating an out of sync feeling one your mac. Its X|_|[] controls contrast against those positioned on the left on macs, creating confusion. But on the bright side, it is Chrom(ium) on a Mac, and it works.

Chromium, I know, will only act as a temporary fulfillment until the release of the full Mac version by Google.

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]]> http://www.attackr.com/google-chromium/feed/ 2 Google Chrome – faster and more screen estate http://www.attackr.com/google-chrome-faster-and-more-screen-estate/ http://www.attackr.com/google-chrome-faster-and-more-screen-estate/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:00:44 +0000 niemi http://www.attackr.com/?p=155 By now you’ve probably heard that Google has released their first version of Chrome.

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Chrome is a browser based on Webkit just like Safari. That’s good news for designers as they don’t have to deal wth another peculiar set of HTML and CSS rules and exceptions.

Pixels for free!

The first thing that comes to mind when opening Chrome is the lack of chrome. The toolbar containing files, edit, bookmarks, etc. has been removed, the search bar known from IE7 and Firefox has been integrated into the address bar (Google has named this Omnibox) and the status bar is hidden by default and is set only to show it’s ugly face when you hover your mouse over a link. Let’s look at just how much extra space Chrome can offer in comparison to it’s two biggest competitors.

  1. Chrome: 1663 x 930 = 1546590 pixels
  2. IE7: 1659 x 904 = 1499736 pixels
  3. FF3: 1663 x 867 = 1441821 pixels

To find the actual view port I took a screen shot at 1680×1050 and cropped the image to contain only the view port area. All browsers were set to their default configurations.

Chrome offers a blasting 1546590 pixels on a screen resolution of 1680×1050 pixels. That’s a mind bobbeling 7 percent more than what Firefox 3 can offer and 3 percent more than IE7.

If Chrome becomes the browser of choice we might see that extra space used to display more ads, bigger top banners and a like. With the extra space Google could fit even another sponsored link on top of the search results. Let’s just hope that doesn’t happen.

Performance

General performance seems to have increased slightly from Firefox 3, but the real performance gain is found in the way it renders JavaScript. Google’s own numbers show that Chrome are about three times faster than Firefox 3 and up to ten times faster then IE7.
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Test the JavaScript performance yourself

The virtual JavaScript engine is called V8 and has been developed by a Danish Google division.

Chrome can be downloaded here but unfortunately it can only be run on Windows environments.

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