04 Mar 09 Interview: what’s next for Google Chrome

Patrick Goss, techradar.com

For many, Google Chrome’s arrival in the already competitive browser market was a real bolt from the blue, but for software engineer Lars Bak it was the end product of years of work.

Bak heads up the development of the v8 JavaScript engine in Chrome, one of the key features of Google’s browser and also one of the most innovative.

In the past few months, the importance of browsers coping with JavaScript and the web apps that are built on it have become increasingly obvious, and its something that Bak has been delighted to see.

"It’s fantastic," he tells TechRadar. "This is exactly why we started two-and-a-half years ago.

"When we started we were facing no competition; all browsers had the same speed in terms of JavaScript and it turned out to be bit of a bottle neck for web applications.

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23 Jan 09 Ben Goodger: The man behind Chrome

Late last year, web search company Google entered the browser market with the release of Chrome. Users will be immediately struck by its pared-down user interface, whose design can be credited in large part to Aucklander Ben Goodger.

Goodger, a software engineering graduate of the University of Auckland, cut his browser development teeth on Netscape before becoming lead developer of Firefox. Now he’s in charge of Chrome’s look and feel, as he explained during a visit to Auckland earlier in the month from his home in California.

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