You may not know the name Mike Pinkerton, but you’re probably familiar with his work: he’s one of the creators of Camino, the OS X native version of Mozilla that’s been around since the early days of Mac OS X. Camino’s other creator, Dave Hyatt, now works (and blogs about working) on Safari, but Pinkerton’s also got another little project up his sleeve you just may have heard of: Google Chrome.
Pinkerton has been largely working on Google Desktop for the Mac, but it turns out he’s also leading the charge on Google Chrome’s forthcoming Mac client. In a post to his blog yesterday, he spelled out what this means for the future of Camino:
How does this affect Camino? In the short term, it doesn’t at all. Plans for Camino 2.0 based on the Gecko 1.9 are underway and unchanged. I have some super-reviews to do for smorgan tomorrow that’ll get us closer to 2.0alpha status. There shouldn’t be any talk of “doom” or “gloom” because really nothing has changed. People still download Camino and continue to send email to our feedback list saying how much they love the product this community has created. That’s just as valid tomorrow as it was yesterday. Camino is a great product and it is appreciated.
That’s good news for Camino fans. Pinkerton also goes on to say that his personal goal is “to build a first-rate, native Mac product for Chromium,” which I think we can all agree is something to look forward to. I’ve been very pleased with Camino over the years, and if the same Mac-like sensibilities show up in the native version of Google Chrome, I will be pretty content.
[via Insanely Great Mac]
This is great news! Camino is a phenomenal browser. Maybe this is ridiculous to say, but it feels like the most Mac-like browser to me. More so even than Safari.
No Google browser!!!
This company is soooo evil!!!
Will there be a Vimperator for Chrome? This addon is not available yet for Camino on OS X.