![]() Mac/Windows/Linux, and StandardJS, a JavaScript style guide, linter, and The web, WebTorrent Desktop, a slick torrent app for I build innovative projects like WebTorrent, a streaming torrent client for Support contract for companies and teams. I'm Feross, an entrepreneur, programmer, open source author, and mad scientist. (If you liked this, you might like Freedom of Speech on the Internet.) What an awesome way to think about design. ![]() Every time the user agent steps in between the user and their task, we slow them down and diminish their enjoyment. They’re trying to find a restaurant, check an email, post a facebook update, and then get the hell away from the computer. As important as it might seem to engineers for our users to weigh fully a variety of considerations relating to our software, in reality they have better things to be doing. We seek not to bother the user with information that is irrelevant. Invisibility is a key part of one of Chrome’s four “S”s - simplicity. I have never seen such an effective platform update mechanism before. And today, some five years after our autoupdater started updating a mostly blank window that could barely load webpages, it is now an engine for delivering an incredibly sophisticated web technology platform onto our users’ computers, which in turn allows web app developers to build amazing new online experiences. If they installed that, over time the blank window would grow into a browser. The idea was to give people a blank window with an autoupdater. ![]() Per this post:ĭelving back into project history long before we launched publicly in 2008, the autoupdate project was one of the very first we started working on. Autoupdate is one of Google Chrome’s killer features.
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