pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/google_chrome.jpg"How did Internet Explorer become the number one browser in the world? Simple - it came with every new computer you purchased, pre-installed and ready to go. Now it seems Google is contemplating doing the same with their browser, a href="http://www.google.com/chrome"Google Chrome/a. According to Google VP, Product Management, Sundar Pichai, the browser's beta period will end in January and then they "will probably do distribution deals," he says. /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12672amp;cb=12672' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12672amp;n=12672' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pIn an article that ran in yesterday's a href="http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5201289.ece"The Times/a, Pichai revealed details on what he called Google's plans to make Chrome the browser of choice for the everyday user. A big part of that plan includes distribution deals with computer manufacturers. /p pstrong"We could work with an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and have them ship computers with Chrome pre-installed,"/strong he was quoted as saying. Thanks to the anti-trust rulings that came out of the IE / Netscape battle back in the 1990's, there's nothing to prevent Google from doing deals of their own with computer makers, if they desire./p pOnce Google has a glitch-free version of Chrome sometime early next year, "we will throw our weight behind it," said Pinchai. "We've been conservative because its still in beta, but once we get it out of beta we will work hard at getting the word out, promoting to users, and marketing will be a part of that." em(a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_much_traffic_can_a_link_on.php"A link on Google's homepage might help/a with those marketing efforts, but not as much as we previously thought)./em/p pPichai also noted thatstrong versions of a href="http://www.google.com/chrome"Chrome/a for Linux and Mac computers will become available in the first half of next year/strong which would allow the browser to work on almost 99% of computers worldwide. /p h2Is It Ready?/h2 pJust because Google whips off the "beta" label (perhaps making Chrome one of the first products to leave beta with such speed) that doesn't necessarily mean the browser is ready for prime time./p pShortly after it's launch, a a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/security_flaw_in_google_chrome.php"serious security flaw/a was discovered in the browser. The exploit took advantage of an underlying vulnerability in WebKit that had already been a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/15/apple_safari_carpet_bombing_vuln/"known about/a for more than two months. Apple had patched their Safari browser against this flaw back in July, but Google Chrome launched in September with the flaw still in place. Google's overlooking of this risk is concerning. /p pAlso, for some Windows users, it wasn't until the most recent update the scroll-up functionality on their laptop's trackpad even workedem (this author was affected and was pinged by several Twitter friends that were, too)/em. And even now Chrome is misbehaving on a pre-beta build of Windows 7. Googling from the address bar no longer works since the upgrade on my test machine. /p pBefore the product goes gold, we at ReadWriteWeb would like to see the browser add support for RSS feeds, a surprising omission in the feature set. As fans ofa href="http://reader.google.com" Google Reader/a, we had hoped to see deeper integration with other Google products in Chrome, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Subscribing via the browser doesn't even work, let alone allow us to subscribe via Google's own RSS Reader. /p pStill, these problems may only be a patch or two away from being repaired. Hopefully, Google wouldn't release their browser before it's ready, especially if they plan on promoting it so heavily among mainstream computer users, many of whom have already switched over to Firefox and a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/firefox_reaches_20_market_shar.php"seem to be happy with their selection/a. For these individuals, a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mozilla_one_billion_addon_down.php"Firefox addons/a are now also a major part of the browsing experience - will people willingly give those up and move to Chrome? We suppose we'll just have to wait and see. /p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_chrome_may_be_pre-installed_on_new_pcs.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/gQTQSuNqbCz-IwXqdrUT1UUJY8o/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/gQTQSuNqbCz-IwXqdrUT1UUJY8o/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=vf3gq7yJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1035" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=hX0wS5vt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=xyZVbJ4e"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=xyZVbJ4e" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=fYSvWHHX"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=fYSvWHHX" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=1b6lD3SJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=1b6lD3SJ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=TYQxCoGF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=kMcMksz7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1034" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/bwdRzkYsph8" height="1" width="1"/

John has done a really good job at wrapping up information on the various options for JavaScript developers on the iPhone platform.

He discusses the various approaches:

• JiggyApp: JiggyApp provides a full API for developing an application - apparently separate from most of the typical APIs. Arguably, though, the code ends up being relatively usable (jailbroken only :(
• JSCocoa: JSCocoa is a full bridge that maps Cocoa development into JavaScript (instead of the typical Objective-C/Cocoa mapping). The result ends up working in both OS X and on the iPhone.
• PhoneGap: PhoneGap is an application that exposes a few JavaScript APIs to pages running MobileSafari. Right now this includes Geolocation and access to the Accelerometer.
• WebTouch: The other day “Dr Nic” wrote up an article on how he had used a WebKit instance (along with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) to render a portion of his iPhone application.

I was chatting with someone on the PhoneGap team about their Android support. There is a play to be had to enable rich mobile applications all based on the Open Web stack that we know and love :)

pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/software-update/" rel="tag"Software Update/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/ipod-touch/" rel="tag"iPod touch/a/ppimg vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/11/ipod22-2934028234.jpg" alt="" /Apple also released a firmware update for iPod touch, bringing it in line with most version 2.2 updates for iPhone released a little while ago. It doesn't appear, however, that iPod touch users get the enhancements to the Maps app that iPhone users do. em(Thanks, Guillermo!)/em/p pThe update contains enhancements to Mail, fixes connection issues with WPA-secured wireless networks, improves Safari stability, and includes a new preference to turn off auto-correction for typing./p pAlso, podcasts are now available for download from within the iTunes app, and pressing the Home button from any home screen will now take you to the first home screen./p pSeveral security enhancements are included, too, updating CoreGraphics, ImageIO, networking, Office Viewer, Passcode Lock, Safari and Webkit. A complete list of security updates is a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3318"available on Apple's website/a./p pThe update is available by clicking "Check for Update" with your iPod selected in the Devices area of the sidebar in iTunes./pp style="padding:5px;clear:both;"a href="http://www.tuaw.com"TUAW/aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/21/apple-also-releases-iphone-os-for-ipod-touch-2-2/"Apple also releases iPhone OS for iPod touch 2.2 /a originally appeared on a href="http://www.tuaw.com"The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:15:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a.br style="clear:both;"/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3318Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/21/apple-also-releases-iphone-os-for-ipod-touch-2-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/1379017/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/21/apple-also-releases-iphone-os-for-ipod-touch-2-2/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/2YaYvHuvv3XAgadmMYZgXKZSoOI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/2YaYvHuvv3XAgadmMYZgXKZSoOI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=KKa92CSG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=KKa92CSG" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=OZm8MgSa"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=OZm8MgSa" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~4/ZlatqM23NQg" height="1" width="1"/

For all their mesmerizing graphics and adrenaline fueled gameplay, it might come as a surprise to non-gamers that many of today’s most popular computer games are bogged down by downtime (I should know - I spent the better part of 1999 mining virtual ore in Ultima Online to become a master blacksmith, and enjoyed about 10 minutes of it). MMOs like World of Warcraft see epic battles punctuated by hours of wandering mostly empty wilderness, while FPS games often punish gamers for dying by making them sit out and watch their comrades go at it until the beginning of the next round.

Today GotGame is giving these gamers something to do during these bouts of boredom. The company has released Rogue, a web browser based on WebKit and Adobe’s AIR platform that integrates directly into most of today’s popular gamers, allowing users to swap between their game and the web with a single hotkey. Gamers will be able to check their Email, listen to Pandora, watch Hulu videos, or casually browse the web at their leisure, jumping back into the game within seconds whenever they need to (the browser supports opacity, so it’s easy to tell when you need to swap your attention).

It’s possible to accomplish similar multitasking by placing games in ‘Windowed’ mode (which doesn’t make them take up the full screen), but this makes games prone to crashing and poor performance. Conversely GotGame says that Rogue should run perfectly fine with most games, and should only slightly affect performance (though the effect will increase significantly if you watch Flash-based movies like Hulu).

While it may seem counterintuitive to non-gamers, GotGame Rogue is a great idea - I would have loved to have had it during my gaming years (instead I was forced to sit a TV next to my computer monitor). Provided the app is as stable as GotGame claims, it will probably do very well. Other players in this space include Xfire, which offers an in-game application for socializing with other gamers.

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