Somewhat infuriatingly, Google released its own browser, Chrome, into the wild near the end of last year but only for Windows. My experiences with it on that platform are that it works smoothly, albeit without many of the bells and whistles that can be got for Firefox. While an unofficial partial port was achieved using Crossover Chromium and there is the Chromium project with all its warnings and the possibility to add a repository for its wares to Ubuntu’s software sources, we have been tantalised rather than served so far. However, that was recently bettered by the release of early access versions. In reality, these can be said to be alpha versions so not everything works but it’s still Chrome and without the need for Windows or WINE. The rendering engine most importantly seems to be the equal of what you get on Windows while ancillary functions like bookmark handling seem incomplete. In summary, the currently available deb packages are a work in progress but that’s better than not having having anything at all.
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A CSS3 resource
While you could go over to the W3C and peruse its documentation, it’s always nice to see information being presented in a more user friendly way than dry specification documents. I know that CSS2.x adoption is still bumping along – IE comes to mind as a laggard – but CSS3 has some nice additions that I could use. One of these is border rounding, which is supported after a fashion by Firefox, Safari and Chrome (a very nice browser, even at this very early stage in its development; it’s Windows only for now so try out CrossOver Chromium if your OS preference is Linux or OS X). It would be very nice if CSS3 support was more advanced but that’s not how things are right now. Therefore, seeing a website like CSS3.Info with its latest CSS3 news and its previews, browser CSS selector testing among other things is a definite bonus.