{"id":92,"date":"2008-09-01T19:59:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T23:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/google-chromes-comic-book-for-tech-gurus.html"},"modified":"2008-09-01T19:59:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T23:59:53","slug":"google-chromes-comic-book-for-tech-gurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/google-chromes-comic-book-for-tech-gurus\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome&#8217;s Comic Book For Tech Gurus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USPS sent the [promotional comic book about Google&#8217;s new browser](http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2008-09-01-n47.html) a day early to Philipp Lenssen. While everyone else wonders what this means for the browser cold war, I&#8217;m much more interested in the messenger. Who thinks of launching a web browser by mailing a paper comic book to tech bloggers?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what to think of this comic book approach to presenting complex technical subjects. If their target audience is non-technical, then panels like this one are not going to help.<\/p>\n<p>[<img id=\"image91\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/x-juggler.gif\" alt=\"Mike Beishe, X Juggler\" \/>](http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=8UsqHohwwVYC&#038;printsec=frontcover#PPA6,M1)<\/p>\n<p>Did I really just read &#8220;de-allocated memory&#8221; in a comic book? And, while I first glance it appears comic Mike Beishe is juggling the letters &#8220;X,&#8221; a closer inspection of his right hand reveals he is in fact [holding a mystical orb](http:\/\/www.homestarrunner.com\/sbemail141.html).<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the format leaves me with serious (well, for a web browser) questions about just what the heck they have in mind with this project. I&#8217;m also fairly confident that the &#8220;typical&#8221; browser user won&#8217;t even make it to page 6 to learn how to juggle de-allocated memory. It&#8217;s pitching too low for the well-informed and too high for the less-informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USPS sent the [promotional comic book about Google&#8217;s new browser](http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2008-09-01-n47.html) a day early to Philipp Lenssen. While everyone else wonders what this means for the browser cold war, I&#8217;m much more interested in the messenger. Who thinks of launching a web browser by mailing a paper comic book to tech bloggers? I&#8217;m not sure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}