by Nick - 09.02.08
Scott McCloud, who has been explaining and expanding the comic book medium for over 20 years is now explaining and helping expand the digital world. In order to explain their new browser, with all of it’s new approaches behind the scenes, Google turned to Scott to help them explain Chrome to the public.
Check out the comic on Google’s site to learn all about Chrome and then do yourself a favor and get familiar with McCloud. His Understanding Comics is essential reading for anyone who is even curious about the comic form and his 24 hour comic project is now a legendary and brutal way to learn yourself some comic making fast.
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Google Chrome is better than firefox my mem ram its ALIVE AGAIN!
esmilodonte - 09.02.08 9:55 pm
Scott McCloud is great…I used one of his books as research for a final project in a technical communications course on advertisements…how often can a college course have a comic book as your major source?
Amauriel - 09.02.08 10:56 pm
I really enjoyed that. The way Google does things certainly has a freshness to it.
Rebecca Clements - 09.02.08 10:58 pm
@ Amauriel: one of my communications classes actually had Scott’s Understanding Comics as a required reading! I sure did learn a lot about ’sequential art’ from his books.
Reading this comic reminds me just how engaging and informative his stuff is; the pictures are way more helpful than any charts or graphs have ever been.
Stuffed - 09.03.08 2:58 am
I’m really enjoying Chrome
Edgar - 09.03.08 9:34 am
I gotta get this. It’s just too cool.
So, Web 3.0 here we come?
SeanOrange - 09.03.08 12:22 pm
Using Chrome as we speak. So far so good
AleksOD - 09.03.08 12:53 pm
I can’t seem to install Chrome, I presume because I don’t have SP2
Can’t wait to have a ‘proper’ computer…
I love the Scott McCloud comic about Chrome, though!
jgoreham - 09.03.08 1:51 pm
Chrome phones home to Google every hour. Uninstalling Chrome doesn’t change this, the phone home program remains installed and pinging away. The EULA also grants Google exclusive worldwide license to do anything they want with anything you access or create via Chrome with existing Google services.
amanaplan - 09.03.08 3:13 pm
Chrome is good computer-wise, but I don’t really like it. The tab bar thing is at the top of the f-ing screen, and the interface looks like it suits Windows XP better then Internet Explorer did. No Firefox/IE scroll.
Edgee - 09.03.08 6:27 pm
Using it right now. So far so good, though it tends to hang up at times using flash applications. Still in Beta, so things should get better.
DCSimian - 09.04.08 9:46 am
Well, I installed it last night. It didn’t change my world, but I hope over extended use its features become more obvious. I hated having flash crash my entire browser and all its tabs in IE. If the Google team is to be believed, at worst only that tab should freak out — once it’s out of Beta, anyway!
SeanOrange - 09.04.08 10:38 am
I liked Chrome except for that little update application they install without telling you. Things like that bother me much more than anything the browser could potentially improve on. Maybe later Google.
Steven - 09.04.08 1:19 pm
Thank you, Scott McCloud. Now tell us why you are promoting a shamelessly and openly distributed piece of spyware. Did you know the german government actually warned against using chrome yesterday (because it spies on you and it is a beta release)?
shadaik - 09.09.08 3:28 am
So far, I’m basically please with Google Chrome. It has some work to do, and I have more to run it through. I’ll be back soon with more on add-on work arounds and Google Gears, and whatever else I uncover in the mean time.
free bingo - 10.01.08 3:28 am