Comment on the browser's skin project

Often I was asked "What browser do you use" the answer is: Maxthon friends 360, but in fact, these are not real browser, from a technical point of view, at best, just add a shell on the IE browser Nothing more Abroad, the shell browser is in the form of "skin", purely for beautification of the browser. But in China, shell browser has become a business. The main source of revenue for Qihoo did not come from the well-known security guard for a business war. Instead, it came from the 360 ​​browser (which has two versions, IE and Chrome, respectively).

Earlier shell browsers, such as MyIE, generated the majority of their revenue from search engines because search engines were in the midst of a fierce battle for market share. In the MyIE interface, the right side of the box by a can type in the keyword, a carriage return, you can get the search results on the page. As for which engine to use in the end, the user can choose, but MyIE also made the default settings - the default setting is money, which is willing to give more money, which will become the default setting.

Shell browser development to today, there is no doubt that "Internet entrance" feeling. There are a number of "default settings" on the shell browser that lead users who do not want to be overly burdensome to reach applications on the web. Shell browsers may even be beyond the page navigation of Hao123 because the latter is exactly where the user needs to go to a page to reach other places and the shell browser directly lets you push a button somewhere in the browser .

Shell early browser participants are generally small teams, but there is one exception, it is Tencent. Tencent produced a browser called "Tencent", and QQ bundled together to download. However, the application of this browser is not popular with the hot and popular QQ up. Today, Tencent still offers QQ browser and TT browser (an updated version of tencent), but in the shell browser market, Tencent has got a taste of catch up late in the evening set.

Tencent recently released Q + platform, I was regarded as a "shell system" thing. In fact, rivers and lakes, there is no lack of heard of a domestic digital giant in the development of operating system rumors, but to be honest, the operating system is far more complicated than the browser - for example, the browser almost no need to consider the hardware adapter, but the operation It's impossible today for systems to be plug-and-play without regard to this - with the strength of the domestic digital company not having come up with a decent real browser today, I'm not really optimistic about their future as operating systems. This "shell system" is not a bad option that can be quickly realized.

The same thing as the shell browser is that the shell system is less demanding on the underlying technology. Through the system desktop changes to meet the needs of many people on the gaudy desktop, coupled with a similar "software download" feature to meet a large number of white users do not know where to go under the software to simplify the software installation process, and more directly to the user The use of installed software, these things, for the deep understanding of human nature of domestic digital companies, it is their director. And these little investment work, effective and fast: you can quickly become the entrance of the entrance, you are not using a browser system foundation?

Just one thing, based on IE's shell browser Microsoft indifferent, does not mean that commercial companies on the windows to transform some Microsoft will also be indifferent - there is a potential legal risk. However, chrome system as an open source system, the risk is much smaller. In fact, in the field of mobile phones, all mobile phone equipment manufacturers are doing something similar to the shell system, such as Motorola, such as HTC. Although Google is too open to the Android has been vigilant, android3.0 (ie, the Hive) will probably no longer support customized interface, chrome system may not do so.

To give you a less than appropriate example, the Chrome system is very much like a rough room that has been fully equipped with infrastructure that is not suitable for ordinary people (except for architectural artists). On top of this, engaging in renovation projects and making a "safety system" can not only meet the user's need for foolish use, but at the same time, it is quite possible to be a good business. And even windows, a desktop windowsblinds for desktop beautification billing software, you can win the desktop completely "decorate" Apple MAC style, have not heard of Microsoft to tell it.