Digital Publishing Insights

I've just had a chance to play around with Google's new "Chrome" browser. It's a quick download from www.google.com/chrome/.

Of course, I wanted to try it out! Starting on the Texterity's examples page, I opened a few favorite magazines, such as MacLife.

First impressions are great. With it's clean look, it makes a digital edition look streamlined and maximizes the viewing area. Google had supposedly written their javascript interpreter "from scratch" to make it faster, and it felt faster to me than my version of IE, but I'll need to do some more testing to be sure.

The other nice feature is that the Texterity offline (local version) can be set to open in Chrome simply by setting Chrome as the "default browser". It's a nice experience as smooth as well. Everything, including the embedded rich media, works flawlessly as far as I can tell.