Why Google Chrome matters
In the long term, we think of [Chrome] as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web rather than a browser application. We avoid putting things into our UI in the same way you would hope that Apple and Microsoft would avoid putting things into the standard window frames of applications on their operating systems.
And there it is, Microsoft’s worst nightmare laid bare. Google has grown tired of the web browser ghetto [..]. They are not mere content presented within another application. They are prime actors, first-class citizens.
John Siracusa - Straight out of Compton
