[Molvis-list] Jmol and chrome

[Raymond Keller]

* Dan Bolser (dan.bolser at gmail.com) [20080906 07:15]:
> 2008/9/5 Kevin Karplus <karplus at soe.ucsc.edu>
> >
> > Since Chrome doesn't exist for Macs or Linux boxes, I have no way to
> > check its deficiencies.  That deficiency alone is enough to rule out
> > my ever using it.
> 
> I'll second that! What are Google thinking?
> 
> "How about Chrome for Linux? You're even more out of luck than people
> running Steve Jobs' operating system. Although Google's also gathering
> e-mail addresses from Linux users who want to be pinged when a version
> is ready, Chrome's developer notes spell out some bad news: "There is
> no [emphasis in original] working Chromium-based browser on Linux,"
> says the build documentation, in red type within a bordered box, no
> less."

The situation may not be so gloomy for Linux+Google fans.

The above-quoted article says also:
  ``"We're hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux," the
  company's heads of engineering and product management said on
  Monday...''

The "developers' notes" page referenced in said article is a page of
documentation on how to build Chromium on Linux.  Boldly noting how
it doesn't actually build is just appropriate warning.

  http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-linux

My guess is that Google is interested in eating Microsoft's lunch by
turning desktop OSs into commodities by assuring all desktops can
run a common platform of web technology.  Either they'll dominate
the browser space or facilitate it.  Facilitating is probably
easier, so I imagine we can expect open source leadership and
standards compliance for the next decade.  Which I believe spells
interoperability with standards-compliant molecular visualization
systems.

RSK