[Info-vax] OT: Chrome bug with Applet and threading

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<2efdb9b0-23e9-477a-b67d-fcf4f87bccf4 at h10g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes: 

> Maybe it's just me but I think Google is cool. 

Maybe they used to be.

> You've got to love when
> a bunch of techies keep asking "why not?" then producing cool
> technology like Android, Chrome, Google Maps, etc. After Apple
> wouldn't let Google put GV on Apple's iPhone, Google threw down the
> gauntlet then produced the gPhone. What other company could send a big
> F-you to Apple? 

Competition is good, yes.

> Getting back to Chrome for a minute, it's not perfect
> but a lot of people like it because it is not a bloated as IE. Hell,
> Google and Firefox (my favorite) changed the browser industry for the
> better in a very small period of time while Microsoft's main claim to
> fame in this area was killing Netscape then doing virtually nothing
> with browsers for the next 10 years. Microsoft's other main claim to
> fame is trying to do the same thing to Sun with C# which appears to
> everyone to be a line-for-line ripoff of Java (with many function name
> changes)

I've never bought into the Microsoft stuff.  Firefox is a reasonably 
good browser.  What is the reason Google wants their own browser anyway?
Since it is not sold, that can't be the motivation.  They earn money 
through advertising, and "best" is targetted advertising.  Go figure.

> Nope, Google reminds me of a very young DEC successfully taking on
> other companies who have run out of ideas.

AFAIK, DEC didn't deliberately try to force their own version of 
something when there was a public standard.