Google Being Forced To Sell Chrome is Not Good for the Web

Chris Coyier isn’t letting Google off the hook for their shenanigans, but their investment in Chrome is an investment in the web, and that’s a good thing. Better than the proprietary alternatives.

A stagnated web is incentive for the operating system makers of the world to invest in pulling developers toward those proprietary systems. The browser wars sucked but at least we were still making websites. Being forced to make proprietary apps to reach people is an expensive prospect for the rest of us companies of the world, it will probably be done poorly, and we’ll all suffer for it.

Me personally, I’d rather see better OS primitives available to browsers.