I spotted this over the weekend, but as I was building a flagstone patio, I wasn’t really close to, or in the mood for dealing with a computer. But this morning, I hit the download link and took a look. The first impression is positive – through not for being able to run Chrome on the Mac, but for the coding mojo of the CrossOver folk to be able to get an app that is essentially a Windows app running on Mac with only a few pokey points.
These “pokey points” are related more to the video/rendering deficiencies as it seems that what has been done is to move Chrome in all its open sourcey goodness over to the Mac. So you get the Windows colors, scroll bars and even text rendering (it seems). The browser doesn’t seem to come with any plugins, so I’ll have to hunt some of those down. So while this is annoying, it does potentially have an upside. That being the potential ability of certain Windows only plugins to run on the Mac via Chromium. While this is a long shot, I’m going to give it a try. If it works, that means many of the educational CAI web apps developed over the last 10 years in the now abandonded Authorware environment might be playable on the Mac for the first time since OS9.2.
More as I play.
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