Tomorrrow Google will launch Chrome, their new open source browser project. We here at the Lab are pretty excited about it. What I really appreciate is the how they have taken a modern look at how browsers are used, and built the browser to meet these needs. As web developers, we love to see this kind of innovation that makes our jobs easier and makes the Internet a better place for everyone.

The news was announced through an nice comic book. It is a hot topic on the web today and the reaction is largely in line with ours. What is great about the comic book is that it does a good job of going through many of the technical details about how browsers work. For anyone working in the web-development space, this is a good place to learn more about how to discuss browser issues, and to learn more English vocabulary for describing different parts of the Internet ecosystem.

My main hope is that more momentum behind non-IE rendering engines will help to move China away from an IE-only mindset. Right now we literally need to use Windows simply because certain websites only work in IE for absolutely no good reason. I would love to see more, better browsers in use, pushing businesses to realize that making your website work in IE is not good enough.