Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Chrome for Mac - Advantage India


With the release of Chrome for Mac the fun of having yet another bowser for yet another operating system enhances by one more level. So now we have:

Mac: Safari, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Firefox 3.5 and Chrome
Windows: IE6, IE7, IE8, Safari, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Firefox 3.5, Chrome
Linux: Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Firefox 3.5, Chrome

Each or these browsers run their own Javascript engines which tend to behave a little differently on each OS, giving way to virtually infinite permutations and combinations. Which means that each time you make a release to your website, 1000s of hours have to go into testing each the minutest of Javascript functionality and tweaking it to make it work across browsers.

This testing largely being a manual effort, it's becoming increasingly expensive to produce web applications in the US and Europe. Which is why it makes sense to setup shop in India to develop your software.

Yesterday I was at IIT Bombay's IDC, where IDEO Design of San Francisco was recruiting. The big news was that they are opening an office in Bombay ! Which makes complete sense looking at how cost efficient it is to produce web applications in India.


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