Chrome And Javascript - Oh Bugger

Posted by Paul B | September 2, 2008 .

This is my first post via Chrome, I’ve just discovered something I really like already, in line spell checking:) Other than that it is everything you’d expect from Google (Wow it highlights Google as a typo), clean, simple and very fast.

But more importantly, if you’ve got any sort of cross browser JavaScript functionality going on you might just be about to find out that it’s not working! I use some rather fancy image faders on a few sites and even though there is no obvious hard coding in there (they use some simple element checks to check compatibility) Chrome really doesn’t like it. I was looking if there was a way of changing the User Agent within Chrome but haven’t had any joy so far. I’ll have a mess around on the net for another hour or so but if nothing turns up I guess it’s going to be time to start hacking JavaScript. Oh joy of joys, this was my biggest worry when I heard about Chrome.

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6 Comments so far

Adam September 5, 2008 6:02 pm

It apparantly uses Safari’s rendering engines, so if your stuff works in Safari it should work in Chrome!

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Paul B September 5, 2008 9:33 pm

That what I thought as well but when I run the same pages through a Safari simulator it works no problem. Notice you’re Mac based, can you do me a favour and try http://www.west-sands.com and see if you get the header? Cheers.
google free web hosting September 10, 2008 4:04 am

i tried out chrome, and here are the things I found out:

1. starting one page in chrome takes about 20mgs of RAM - starting one page of ff3 takes about 125mgs.

2. each additional tab in chrome adds about 20-30mgs of RAM usage. you can open up as many tabs as you want in firefox, and you won’t use more than 200mgs (at least with my experience).

3. opening up each successive tab in chrome makes the thing slower and slower….though it’s not taking up that much ram. im’ not sure if it’s related to a processor thing or waht….but i think it’s bug they gotta fix.

4. i’m planning to buy a netbook, and you better believe i’m going to install chrome on it.
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Paul B September 10, 2008 8:49 am

The way Chrome works by running each tab in it’s own little space is very similar to how an operating system works. At the moment there is only one “app” available for it (the standard browser tab) but I don’t think it will too long before we start start seeing customised/optimised tabs for other things. Gmail tab, Google Docs tab, Google Earth tab - each optimised to best suite the web application in question.

I can really see Chrome becoming much more than just browser competition for Firefox and IE, I think that’s why Google concentrated so hard on the Windows platform.
google free web hosting September 10, 2008 9:40 pm

hmmmm…..that’s interesting….so a cloud OS?

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Paul B September 11, 2008 9:14 am

That’s the word on the street

Did you hear that they are thinking about games publishing as well? Possibly free games in exchange for adverts. I worry about Google sometimes, soo many directions at once. Then again who am I to question them, when I’ve stuck another 10 billion in the bank maybe.