Lingo: Chrome 30 Aug 2006
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clofresh 30 Aug 06
chrome://ui/delete/
Gayle 30 Aug 06
Ok, due to reading it a thousand times in a row, “chrome” as a word has now officially lost all meaning.
Justin 30 Aug 06
Hell is chrome.
Last I heard, anyway.
Aaron Blohowiak 30 Aug 06
what happened to noodage?
Jason Liebe 30 Aug 06
:%s/chrome/bling/g
Jeff L 30 Aug 06
Real Chrome
btw, it looks fake, but the car is real
Luis 30 Aug 06
Say, is that what they make Chromographs with?
What time is it?
Rahul 30 Aug 06
Would you like chrome with that?
In Dutch there are phrases like “zonder schroom” or “schroom niet”, which is pronounced “schrome” with a hard European “ch” rasping sound. It pretty much means “without embarrassment” and “don’t be embarrassed”, respectively.
Someone over here should go market that as a UI paradigm. I can imagine a Mac t-shirt with “zonder schroom” being a …
okay, a complete failure. My ideas suck.
Darren Stuart 30 Aug 06
Ok what the hell is Chrome?
John Beales 30 Aug 06
I’m with Darren.
That car Jeff linked to must be crazy heavy if it’s actually chromed all over!
Fizik 30 Aug 06
not sure I should let the cat out, but
to quote: “Chrome is the user interface parts of the application window that are outside of a window’s content area. Toolbars, menu bars, progress bars, and window title bars are all examples of elements that are typically part of the chrome.”
http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/ConfigChromeSpec.html
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Chrome
dunno if it’s purely a mozilla thing, but…. hey — great lingo term! haha
Darren Stuart 30 Aug 06
Thanks Fizik now it makes sense :p
Ben Darlow 31 Aug 06
Before I encountered the meaning that the Mozilla project adopted, there was a term I read in the book Game Architecture & Design; in that context it was more a synonym for superfluous content. Basically anything that didn’t serve a purpose was chrome. I find this interpretation somewhat more satisfying.
Leo 31 Aug 06
Like Ice Cube said: I got the chrome thang thang to make the dome stank.
Must be relevant in some way, and too beautiful in its eloquence not to mention ;)
Erm 31 Aug 06
Is this a search result from sessions in Campfire?
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