Google Chrome

[Ardesco]

That should get me an extra day for every weeks worth of browser testing \o/ BOOMED!!!

[voodooflux]

That should get me an extra day for every weeks worth of browser testing \o/ BOOMED!!!

Very, very good point

[VectraMan]

Now posting with Chrome.

Starts up really quick with none of the screen crap that IE and FF have. That's pretty good.

You can resize the post edit boxes. Pretty cool, but makes a right mess of CUK.

[voodooflux]

Pretty cool, but makes a right mess of CUK.

Yeah? Seems OK to me...wassup with it?

EDIT: just realised you meant the resizing of text fields - with you now

Does seem pretty nippy, although I'm not sure about the grey portion of the URL text in the address bar.

[NickFitz]

You can resize the post edit boxes. Pretty cool, but makes a right mess of CUK.

That's a WebKit feature, so you can already do that with Safari

I can't be bothered to fire up a Windows VM until I've upgraded the hard drive on the MacBook - I got a disk full error earlier and had to restart to get the page file down to size

That's what comes of keeping a laptop running for 28 days, I suppose. (I think the record with this machine has been something like four months between restarts.)

I'll upgrade the disk tomorrow and give Chrome a good workout - I anticipate it being a hot topic of conversation at dConstruct on Friday

[NickFitz]

Yeah? Seems OK to me...wassup with it?

He means the resizing of <textarea> elements. If you look, there's a little resize handle at the bottom right corner; it's handy on those sites that give you a ridiculously small field by default.

[voodooflux]

He means the resizing of <textarea> elements. If you look, there's a little resize handle at the bottom right corner; it's handy on those sites that give you a ridiculously small field by default.

Aha, I just realised that as I saw your comment - I must be getting slow in my old age That is a handy feature.

[realityhack]

Dammit - only have Mac OSX and Linux at home - the Win Lappy is at clientco. Expect a full report chaps - and agree with Ardesco - very happy to have potentially more X-browser development revenue.

Any word on when a Unix-based beta will be out?

[NickFitz]

Dammit - only have Mac OSX and Linux at home - the Win Lappy is at clientco. Expect a full report chaps - and agree with Ardesco - very happy to have potentially more X-browser development revenue.

Any word on when a Unix-based beta will be out?

They stated at the launch (according to the liveblogging I was following) that they have a lot of internal pressure to get the non-Win versions out ASAP - many people at Google don't use Windows, so their colleagues are nagging them about this

Larry Page also mentioned that during development he has been using it personally on a really old and slow machine, as a way of keeping up the pressure on the developers to make it faster

Apparently they have made a few upstream changes to the WebKit codebase, but they are working with the WebKit team on getting these integrated back into the trunk.

Everything they had to say seemed (IMHO) to indicate that they're serious about the open-source aspect of this project, so expect to see improvements achieved by the Google folk turning up in Safari, Firefox, and in fact just about every other browser, except the lonely furrow called Microsoft Internet Explorer

Are you going to be at Google Developer Day, RH? I would imagine there'll be a fair amount of focus on Chrome at that

[VectraMan]

Dammit - only have Mac OSX and Linux at home - the Win Lappy is at clientco. Expect a full report chaps - and agree with Ardesco - very happy to have potentially more X-browser development revenue.

Any word on when a Unix-based beta will be out?

LOL. When will people ever learn? Keep telling yourself "It's not just a badge, my Mac is better.It's not just a badge, my Mac is better."