It’s also been a big year for the Chrome ecosystem, with the launch of the Chrome webstore in December and Chrome books in June. Neither of these has taken off yet, but Google is laying the groundwork for Chrome to become a robust, entirely web-based alternative to traditional operating systems like Windows.
The launch of offline Gmail, Calendar and Docs yesterday best underscores the status of these efforts: they’re still early and rough around the edges (offline Gmail doesn’t even support keyboard shortcuts yet), but you can see the potential. Chome’s future success as an OS is hardly a given, but Google is putting a lot of weight behind it.
Despite the limitations, Chrome's audience has grown explosively since its 2008 launch. According to statistics from Stat Counter, the browser's market share hit 10 percent last year and continued growing to 23 percent, as of this month. It's become an important part of Google's product landscape, serving as the central pillar of the company's ambitious Chrome OS operating system.
Check out this interactive HTML5 page created by Google Chrome team to understand the evolution of web.
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