Google Chrome
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by timalmond
Just a quick note to say that I’ve been trying out Google Chrome, and so far it’s pretty impressive, especially from a web developer perspective, and particularly because as it’s webkit based, I can uninstall Safari.
It’s got a DOM inspector built in, a javascript debugger, and a “stats for nerds” feature about memory use by certain pages.
RSS
Yeah — except that for some reason the Google developers have taken the most advanced CSS engine in the world — Webkit — and borked it, stripping out the text shadow properties and fucking up the rounded corner anti-aliasing.
FAIL.
“It’s got a DOM inspector built in, a javascript debugger, and a “stats for nerds” feature about memory use by certain pages.”
All of which Safari has too. You just need to switch on the Debugging menu.
DK
Funny you mention the CSS issues. I ran it against a site earlier today and found a few things that didn’t look right that are fine in IE6/7, FF & Safari.
I generally use FF and dom inspector/js debugger requires extensions. I’m not keen on how Apple’s update thing works, so if this works better, I’ll go for it (although based on what I discovered, I may have to hold on a little longer).