As I’m sure you all know, Google has created an international holiday for geeks across the world with the release of Chrome, a potentially revolutionary browser. I’ve been using it for the day, and I’d like to offer my very humble thoughts on it so far.

First off, I think we all need to realize that this is a VERY early release of a huge project for Google. I have no doubts that it will receive tons of critics based on bugs, missing features, and generally things that Google will obviously be fixing as the project matures. The last thing I want to do is point out the obvious shortcomings (limited bookmark management, few options, no progress bar for page loads, etc…guess I pointed them out anyway), because these things will be coming soon. Google’s, while perhaps a bit optimistic and overconfident, is not stupid by any means. So whatever you say about Chrome, please don’t go and complain about the lack of things that are almost certainly on the way. Or else you’ll annoy me. That’s right!

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Javascript libraries are relatively new, but they’re already everywhere. Almost every major website has some type of library in use (Facebook - Scriptaculous, Amazon - jQuery, Apple - Scriptaculous, Google - jQuery, Digg - jQuery, blah blah blah). With the way that this trend is going, some ground rules need to be laid.

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jQuery is basically amazing. It’s no-brainer syntax makes it incredibly easy to learn, and it’s chaining cuts tons of would-be Javascript into one or two lines. As an example of this, let me show how you stupidly easy it is to make a really slick, totally useful Ajax contact form using jQuery.

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