Google Chrome

[Salvation122]

So Google made a web browser.

I'm posting from it right now. It is in fact pretty cool, although there are a few minor issues I have with it that I'm certain will be addressed by plugins in time.

Just now, I'm running into some issues with text rendering in reply boxes. Odd. Might just be an artifact of this site's code, for some reason - haven't seen it elsewhere.

[DV8]

I'm downloading it right now. Will post a response about it later.

[DV8]

It's weird, it seems to be using the same HTML rendering as Safari, it has the same, weird problems with text-boxes as MacIE, but I'm happy that every tab is in a different process, which comes in handy especially when you're on some high intensity flash sites.

Just now, I'm running into some issues with text rendering in reply boxes. Odd. Might just be an artifact of this site's code, for some reason - haven't seen it elsewhere.

I've seen the same thing happen on MacIE, but nowhere else yet.

[Tiny Deev]

I like it. Its better then the new Mozilla.

[Liniah]

Does it mess up text sizes on pages like Mozilla does?

[DV8]

Does it mess up text sizes on pages like Mozilla does?

No, it doesn't. And besides, you can adjust those in pretty much every browser back to the size you want.

[3278]

Just now, I'm running into some issues with text rendering in reply boxes. Odd. Might just be an artifact of this site's code, for some reason - haven't seen it elsewhere.

Of course, the first thing I did when I heard about Chrome was open up freespeech to see how fucked up Google's rendering would make it. Chrome's supposed to be pretty picky about tables, and I've been known to exploit browser bugs to make tables do things they wouldn't otherwise, so I wanted to see what happened. Nothing, of course: it just worked. But on these reply boxes on Bulldrek - which shouldn't be radically different from the ones on freespeech, although there are obviously alterations - just act crazy. Like the first two characters of any new line disappear, but then reappear moments later. Deleted text remains, until you interact with it, and then it disappears. Very odd.

[DV8]

I recently found out that Chrome's engine is based on WebKit, which is also the basis for Safari, so you can expect the same weirdness from Chrome as you did in Safari. Though I'm guessing that Google will be more diligent about solving this problems. So far, I've been using it since it came out and it's a really very pleasant browser.

[DV8]

Like the first two characters of any new line disappear, but then reappear moments later. Deleted text remains, until you interact with it, and then it disappears. Very odd.

That seems to be the case only with particular forum scripts, however. I don't have it on my website, nor on several other forums, or with LJ for that matter.

[3278]

What I don't know - I haven't looked - is how this one differs from freespeech's; of the two, Bulldrek's should be the one most similar to other phpBB installations!

Maybe I'll just use this as an excuse to give Bulldrek the page-width reply box on freespeech.

[Big Jim]

I've been using it a bit, but it doesn't render Outlook Webmail correctly. Until it does so, it's really not an option as a main browser for me.

There is some basic functionality I've come to expect from a browser that's lacking (mouse gestures being the biggest one), but I'm sure they will have plugins to address that soon enough. Overall I like it.

[DV8]

I've been using it a bit, but it doesn't render Outlook Webmail correctly. Until it does so, it's really not an option as a main browser for me.

Nothing renders that correctly but IE7. Chrome renders it the same way Firefox does.

There is some basic functionality I've come to expect from a browser that's lacking (mouse gestures being the biggest one), but I'm sure they will have plugins to address that soon enough. Overall I like it.

What are mouse gestures?

[Tiny Deev]

I don't like that I can't click my scroll-wheel to scroll. Maybe thats mouse gestures, I don't know..

[Big Jim]

Nothing renders that correctly but IE7. Chrome renders it the same way Firefox does.

And that's why I stick with Avant, which is a skin for IE7 that gives me everything I want.

What are mouse gestures?

Performing standard browser actions without clicking the buttons or keyboard shortcuts. Things like holding the right-click and left-clicking to go back a page.

[DV8]

Maybe I'll just use this as an excuse to give Bulldrek the page-width reply box on freespeech.

I actually kind of like the fact that you can enlarge the textarea-elements, so perhaps you won't have to.

[Kai]

Bulldrek's backend code is fucked up in a myriad of interesting and strange ways :7 There are at least two things I remember as having no effing clue how it managed to work aside from some mystical destructive interference, so I really wouldn't be surprised if some theoretically unrelated code change did something horrible to the reply boxes that isn't normally noticeable.

Chrome is rather neat, but the big things right now for me are it takes up insane amounts of memory and work has banned it for giant security holes (understandable in a beta)

[DV8]

the reply-box thing really has nothing to do with any implemented hacks, since AB and several other sites have the same problem.

[Kai]

Hmm... maybe a versioning thing, I swear I hit up somewhere using base phpBB and it wasn't causing problems, or maybe I'm just hallucinating :7