Blogged: 12-12-2006 at 07:52:40

Dear Google,

Please build a free browser that raises the bar for CSS rendering and adhereance to W3C web standards. It's my belief that leveraging an existing userbase as large as yours is the only way for a majority adoption of a superior browser to occur. I for one wouldn't mind subtle, built-in, targeted advertising as part of such a browser in exchange for the evolution of all the other browsers that would occur as a result. If you build it, they will use it. Few companies are in such a position to provide many web based services that millions already use, integrated into one convenient software package. Many who would not take the time to upgrade to another great browser such as Firefox would upgrade to a google browser if for no other reason than that it makes using all of the great google services they already use on a daily basis even easier to use.

I ask that such a browser be cross-platform, so that I can use it on my windows machine, my mac, and my linux machine. I for one would not use it if it weren't secure, and free of spyware. This should not be that tall of an order condering all of the fine technical achievements we've already seen come out of google. I have every faith that a company with as much programming muscle as google could make a superior browser, unreliant on any other pre-installed browser, and we could all bask in the radiance of total adoption of web standards.

I dont ask anything for this idea, just take it and run with it. I'll benefit as a web developer because other browsers will be forced to keep up, and standards compliance will become more ubiquitous, which is what I'd prefer. Just think, bookmarks and browser history could be web based, it would become counterproductive to use any other browser. It might eventually come pre-installed on some operating systems, it's not as though google desktop doesn't.

Thanks for all the hard work, and the holiday logos on the search.
-Chris