Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Ahead of Google I/O, Chrome starts moving toward web apps that act like real programs

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Google is continuing work to grow Chrome OS into a fully-functional replacement for desktop operating systems. Today the company has begun promoting the selection of "packaged apps" — web applications that primarily live offline and look and feel like traditional native programs — in the Chrome Web Store. The new section, aptly called "Apps," is only available for users on the developer channel of Chrome for now, but it will filter down eventually to the stable channel. With the update, these packaged apps are available for users to browse through for the first time (before you had to have the URL if you wanted to download them from the Web Store), and older apps that aren't quite "packaged apps" have been moved into a "Websites"...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/1/4290900/chrome-web-store-starts-highlighting-real-packaged-apps-ahead-of-google-io

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