This led to widespread outcry from the internet community, who saw Chrome as an attempt by Microsoft to inject a powerful proprietary technology into the open standards based web. We're moving DirectX from programmers to artists." Likewise, Microsoft Liquid Motion was a layer similar to Chromeffects but within Java.Ĭhromeffects did not support any of the media standards that were being developed at the W3C coincident with its development, including HTML+TIME or the document object model. Chrome's project manager, Bob Heddle, claimed that "It is going to propel the industry. Embedding Chromeffects objects in HTML pages could produce rich content in the same way that VML does for 2D artwork. Chrome was the services level of the package, consisting of drivers that talked to D3D, along with a simple viewer application.Ĭhromeffects was an XML-based wrapper that allowed Chrome to be called from within a web page. Chrome was originally positioned as a way to easily add 3D effects to all sorts of programs, and described as a "Windows system service" that would be finalized in early 1999. Looking to make their recently introduced Direct3D more widely available, the Chrome project combined the Dimension X team with many members of the original D3D team.
In May 1997, Microsoft bought pioneering startup Dimension X, developers of several Java-based animation tools including Liquid Motion and Liquid Reality. Throughout its brief lifespan, the product was widely derided as an example of Microsoft's embrace, extend and extinguish strategy of ruining standards efforts by adding options that only ran on their platforms. Launched with some fanfare in early 1998, Chrome, and the related Chromeffects, was re-positioned several times before being canceled only a few months later in a corporate reorganization. Microsoft's Chrome was the code name for a set of APIs that allowed DirectX to be easily accessed from user-space software, including HTML. For Microsoft's Chromium-based browser, see Microsoft Edge.
For the Microsoft application framework incorporating Google's browser, see Electron (software framework). For the web browser by Google, see Google Chrome. This article is about the code name for a set of APIs.
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