Shreyas Srinivasan

Shreyas Srinivasan's Blog I have been reading a lot of reviews about Chrome. Most people seem to be comparing it to Firefox, which I think is underestimating Chrome's capability. I think it has nothing to do with the browser at all; it has everything to do with the platform. For a long time we have touted Web as a platform, Apple took the first big step when it chose the Web as its platform for the first generation iPhone. That approach failed because the Web as a platform was flawed. The reasons IMHO were as follows: Hard to write stateful Web apps Lack of per website security (all apps run in the same address space) No access to hardware (relates to security) JavaScript is slow No offline support. When Apple released an SDK it was an admission of defeat. Chris Messina put it beautifully in his blog post Did the web fail the iphone?. With millions of developers and ... (more)