{"id":856,"date":"2008-09-02T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T19:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/856-microsoftcom-blank-in-google-chrome-browser-history.html"},"modified":"2008-09-02T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T19:36:08","slug":"microsoftcom-blank-in-google-chrome-browser-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/856-microsoftcom-blank-in-google-chrome-browser-history.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft.com blank in Google Chrome browser history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Chrome is available for download<\/a>. I\u2019ve done it in fact; very smooth install. It looks like the company is serious about getting this widely deployed quickly, despite its beta status \u2013 there\u2019s a download link on the Google home page \u2013 must be important to break the 28 words rule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Chrome shows your \u201cmost visited\u201d sites as a kind of home page. I was amused to see that Microsoft.com<\/a> shows up here as blank:<\/p>\n

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No doubt there is a good technical reason. People used to say \u201cDOS Ain\u2019t Done until Lotus won\u2019t run\u201d; and that was not true either<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Honesty compels me to admit that the Microsoft snapshot eventually filled in. Still, it is not much better:<\/p>\n

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The problem is that the central Silverlight panel is failing to load; the main site looks like this in Chrome as well. OK, so Silverlight doesn\u2019t support Chrome. But Microsoft no doubt has something better than a blank panel for incompatible browsers. Was it warned in advance about the advent of Chrome? Was anyone? I know this is WebKit<\/a> and that what works in Safari should work here; but we all know that browser compatibility is complex. Still, it is entertaining.<\/p>\n

Further update<\/strong>: It looks the same in Safari on Windows! I should explain that there is some more stuff to the right and below the empty panel; but the empty sky background occupies the main part of the page. <\/p>\n

To get the full picture, I visited the page with FireFox on Linux:<\/p>\n

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This looks better, but it\u2019s a tease. It has a link to download Silverlight; if you follow it, it eventually reveals that your browser or operating system is unsupported. Sloppy Microsoft; Google exonerated.<\/p>\n

More on Chrome soon, no doubt.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: google chrome<\/a>, microsoft<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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