Informal Brain

I figured I would drop this post here from the future.

A few thoughts:

1. Safari 4 doesn’t need to wait for the future it is here on my Mac today and with its ultra fast Nitro (formally known as SquirelFish Extreme) java script engine it blows away the competition.
2. Google Chrome has V8 while Safari (webkit) has Nitro.  Go figure both browsers are using the webkit framework.  Each time Google commits something to the shared code base Safari gets better!
3. Google Chrome is using a complex IPC oriented renderer to manage having a single window with each tab running in a separate process.  Now, while I appreciate my browser not going out sideways when it hits a page which causes a crash I can’t actually remember the last time the browser crashed?  Won’t all this IPC stuff causing slowness in the rendering engine?
4. While Google Chrome will win the UI simple battle hands down Apple has managed to add some helpful features for people like my Mom.  Things like Top Sites is not designed for the Geek.  It is built for the rest of the world who doesn’t manage their book marks very well.  Coverflow helps trigger the old brain when we see a picture of that web site we were at.  Remember as you get older remember that travelocity is the airline booking site gets harder…

PS… when do I get Nitro on my iPhone?