On: New $250 Chromebook

[kzahel]

Packaged apps (still Chrome canary) now at least have most UDP/TCP socket functionality (when experimental API turned on in flags), so the door is at least open (soon) to more advanced apps.

[MatthewPhillips → kzahel]

It's been open since they did ChromeOS, but Google Talk was the only app they wrote specifically for it. Even today, 95% of Google's apps are firmly HTML4.

[Evbn → MatthewPhillips]

Chrome apps (apps, not websites) use proprietary Chrome APIs beyond HTML.

Behind Chrome, Google uses plugins, like webgl for Maps and the Talk plugin for chat.

Why does HTML " 5 " matter more than the actual functionality?