Google Chrome Looks To the Future, And The Past

There can be no doubt that Google's own web browser, Chrome, is now a major player in the browser market. Its lightning quick reactions and solid plugin-enabled designs seem to point to a strong future, not only for the browser, but also for the upcoming Chrome OS.

Future

Google, who are never one to rest on their laurels, have announced an interesting development about the way that the future of web browsing might actually utilise your computer's hardware in a more efficient manner.

At the moment, your computers brain – the processor – carries the burden of drawing all of the page elements that you see. However there are other areas of processing power (such as the graphics processor used for games, 3D work, etc.) in the average home computer that are not currently utilised when browsing. It is this resource that Chrome will be able to tap in the future. This idea is not unique to Chrome though, Microsoft actually talked about the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 also using hardware-accelerated graphics. It seems this might become the de rigueur feature for the next generation of browsers…

More information can be found on the Chromium Blog.

Past

A walk down memory lane is all the more feature packed and impressive when experienced in Chrome with writer / director Chris Milk. He has created an audio-visual theatre-like experience using some of the rich new opportunities delivered by HTML5. The music – “We Used To Wait” by Arcade Fire – actually seems to drive the action, with a user specific experience delivered in a series of synchronised browser windows.

Want to try for yourself? Point your Chrome browser to 'The Wilderness Downtown' site.

More information can be found on the Google Chrome Blog and details of its construction can be found on the Chrome Experiments site.

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