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	Capt'n Corrupt	2011-01-11 , 23:18
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Engadget just shot back at the move with this piece:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/11/g...e-masses-towa/

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	Capt'n Corrupt	2011-01-12 , 13:42
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I've been playing this game via the Chrome Web store. It's a platformer called The Fancy Pants Adventures and is quite a bit of fun. I'm not mad on the style, but the play mechanics are quite good!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...ehcfbnpeelfhlk

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	Capt'n Corrupt	2011-01-13 , 14:47
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Ars has an article on how Google dropping H.264 is a step back from openness. It's somewhat controversial:

It was copied on Slashdot:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01...s-For-Openness

Thoughts?

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	Capt'n Corrupt	2011-01-14 , 19:57
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Google defends its position regarding WebM and HTML5:
http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/mor...deo-codec.html

Woah! Google will be releasing a plugin for IE and Safari to support WebM in those ecosystems.

With Flash planning support for WebM as well, developers will be able to use WebM worry free and target ALL MAJOR MODERN BROWSERS using Javascript to launch a flash player in its absence, or requiring that the user download and install a plugin.

That's a 'mate' move, and one exceptionally well played by Google.

What now remains is for Google to educate developers to use WebM as their codec of choice. Web developers will determine the winner.

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Crashdamage	2011-01-14 , 20:45
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I see this as both a Good Thing and a smart move by Google. It's not as important to have open standards for software as it is to have standards for open software.

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	Capt'n Corrupt	2011-01-16 , 11:21
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It seems that a blogger (Opera rep?) has weighed in with counter points to the ars technica article regarding WebM taking a step back from openness:

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2011/01/13/openness

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	Capt'n Corrupt	2011-02-09 , 18:49
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Chrome at the Game Developers Conference? You bet.
http://www.google.com/events/gdc/2011/

They'll be showing off NaCl, which effectively turns the browser into a client that executes at native speed without demanding a common language (C/C++ works perfectly). NaCl games will be every bit as good as traditional installs, though run in the browser in a highly secure way.

WebGL is also an enticing technology for more casual games and web applications. There will be segments on WebGL as well.

Soon many more games may be web-apps, and I bet that Google is betting on this. They claim that there are 120M active users of the chrome web store, and games is the largest segment.

This is incredibly exciting news.

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	Capt'n Corrupt	2011-02-18 , 20:27
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This seems hardly popular given the circumstances, but Google is getting ready to launch NaCl as stable in Chrome!
http://blog.chromium.org/2011/02/nat...r-takeoff.html

This is highly significant for the world of the web, where web applications will be given the same speed advantages as Native OS applications with cross OS functionality (eg. games/productivity).

This is truly exciting news and is quite indicative that the www is changing.

This is also a MAJOR cog in the Chrome OS strategy.

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	Capt'n Corrupt	2011-03-04 , 14:46
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The future of computing is looking more and more likely to be on the web.

Not to be left behind, Mozilla is looking to take the Chrome Web Store head on with one of its own!

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...refox-web-apps

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	Capt'n Corrupt	2011-03-08 , 20:02
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It seems as though Google isn't the only one that thinks that the browser is the platform of the future.

Trip Hawkins the founder of EA expects that withover 2 Billion browsers in use, it is to be the platform of the future.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/0...-of-the-Future

FTA:

"For all of the big media companies, this phase of disruption is dramatic and happening fast. Where it's really going to lead is where the function of the browser is going. ... The browser has taken over 2 billion PCs — it's going to be taking over a billion tablets over the next few years, billions of mobile devices. It will end up in my opinion very strong on the television. The browser is the platform of the future."