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Google Chrome's backgrounding features make the browser even more like an OS
It's really all about Chrome being your "OS" even if you're using a Windows or Mac computer. With the ability to run Web apps in the background and Native Client support headed to the beta and stable channels in relatively short order, Chrome Web Apps will soon be capable of doing many of the same things your traditional desktop apps can do.
Google's post talks about using backgrounding to issue notifications (as apps like TweetDeck and exfm do) or to prefetch data. There's really no end to the possibilities, and we're exited to see what the next generation of Chrome Web Apps can really do.
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Subscribe to commentsmotangFeb 24th 2011 10:12AM
That is very innovative, all on the march to ChromeOS.
Android underlingFeb 24th 2011 1:02PM
I hate the idea of Chrome being an OS on my Windows machine.
SilverWaveFeb 24th 2011 3:05PM
@Android underling
Given how insecure the MS OS's are this is probably a good idea TBH
SilverWaveFeb 24th 2011 3:15PM
Yes I was thinking on what Native Client and the Native Client really meant...
You cant easily beat the network affect that the Windows OS benefits from.
So if you were Google and you employed a lot of smart ppl what are the possible winning strategies they could come up with?
Build your own OS on your own Hardware locking MS out.
Overlay your own OS on top of the MS OS... e.g. Borg it :-)
Of course you have to have a Unique Selling Proposition to encourage users to install it over Windows...
I think its security.
Play to your strengths and your opponents weaknesses.
Looks like a plan :-)
SilverWaveFeb 24th 2011 3:16PM
@SilverWave
Correction:
>Yes I was thinking on what Native Client and the ChromeOS really meant...
SilverWaveFeb 24th 2011 3:28PM
Interesting:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/inside-google-native-client-x86-binaries-515-0
Quote:
"Once compiled, NaCl modules are not ordinary executables. They carry a .nexe extension, and they won't run on the server itself or anywhere outside the NaCl environment. The upshot is that it doesn't matter what platform you develop them on; I built the SDK's examples on a Linux workstation and served them to a Windows 7 client with no hiccups.
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TomFeb 26th 2011 6:28AM
Hopefully Google will implement this in their own apps soon e.g. Google Reader, Gmail etc.
dustin cogburnFeb 26th 2011 8:07PM
i smell cross platform spyware via background apps ahoy!