Google Chromic
Not as impressed as Vince with the new browser. Buggy (error at startup time after migrating the favorites) unable to access gmail, suspicious googleUpdate.exe process still active after I’ve closed the app etc …
However, the comic is quite a fascinating experience.
Documenting software to transmit knowledge has always been something I’ve loved to do. The reason is : along with tests, documentation is another abandonned child of the developpers and as such I feel a lot of tenderness towards this activity.
Head First series has been an amazing step toward transmitting knowledge. Kathy Sierra has been studying cognitive science so she knows a tad bout the subject.
But here we’re just moving a step further : a real artist is documenting this rather geeky product …
Scott Mc Cloud is a graphic artist and he has been approached by google to write the specs of the Google Browser. The old times of truck loads of documentation delivered together with your software by the big cat seems like ages ago.
Kathy Sierra taught us why a) conversational writing kicks formal writing whenever it comes to teach and have your audience remembering and b) Graphics have people responding. Google learned their lesson very well thank you and decided to do both.
At GLV puts it in twitter : Google Chrome’s coolness is mostly under the hood. Hard to convince non-programmers why that’s important. The comic is a brilliant solution.
Best thing : the main characters are software engineers. Respect to the alpha geeks indeed.
Check out Scott interview at techRadar.
(Hi it’s Cecil here. As usual, a copy of this post is available on Heavy Mental)
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Tags: chrome, comic, Google, head first series, kathy sierra, scott mcloud
I guess one difference is that Gmail did load for me, though it did also crash a few clicks later. But while it loaded, I briefly felt all the potential that Chromatic Chrome can have.
Hi Vincent,
Yep i’m sure that eventually Google Chrome will be a killer. They know how to make great software. It is just not the finished article as yet.
I am just a bit worried by the strategy. If they are at both ends of the internet they will just be the masters of the information age to an extent that even microsoft has never dreamt of.
So i’ll probably stick with FF3 for a while …
You can’t escape your master
But in any case, of course you’ll stick to your “old” product, because Chrome isn’t working yet. But once it is… bye, bye Cecil and the rest of the world 