snydeq writes "Users are not the only beneficiaries of the work that's gone into Chrome, Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister argues. There's a lot under the hood that should interest developers, too. First off, WebKit, which leads the pack in Web standards compliance and could be the development pearl inside Chrome. Second, its V8 code execution engine, which 'beats Firefox's forthcoming TraceMonkey to the punch by offering a just-in-time native compilation engine for JavaScript.' But the true value of Chrome, McAllister writes, is that Google has clearly taken 'the next step in the ongoing project to create the ultimate client for the Web application platform.' Instead of waiting on standards bodies to muddle through requirements gathering to outline what a browser should do, Google has 'offered us its own vision of what a reference implementation of the browser should look like — not just how it should render pages, but how each module of the application should operate and interoperate.'" Link to Original Source
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