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Chrome Web Store Will Allow for Web-Rich Content

Posted on 19. May, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News

Today at Google’s I/O developer conference, it was announced that the Chrome Web Store will soon be released. Different from Chrome extensions, the Chrome Store will be a central repository for web-rich applications paired with technology like HTML5 and JavaScript. Several examples were displayed at the show, and it gives example to how Google plans on competing with Apple’s iTunes App Store.

The first example shown was gaming. A company called Unity is working on creating a simple developer platform via Native Client that allows easy ports of games over to a web based format. Not too long ago, this idea of Google investing into gaming was brought up, and it appears that the prediction for this is really true to form. At the conference, a 3D Lego Star Wars game was showed off which looked quite impressive.

Another example shown was what the Chrome Web Store can do for publishing. The editor of Sports Illustrated showed off partnered with the Wonder Factory a web-rich issue of SI, which has been shown off in the past with Adobe’s proprietary Air interactive publishing software. In contrast this new version was shown off in an  open HTML5 format, allowing the magazine to do more than just offer text and pictures but also video, games and interactivity that a paper version cannot compare to. This will also be great for eventual tablets that run a Google-based OS.

The Chrome Web Store will be heavily featured in Chrome OS, and will be coming to the Chrome browser development channel soon.

Tags: 3D games in Chrome, Chrome browser applications, Chrome Extensions, Chrome OS applications, Chrome Web Store, interactive magazines, the Wonder Factory