An nameless reader writes "Chrome is open source, and there's clearly still some work to be done on it. In this article, Neil McAllister decided to take a peek under Chrome's hood and view it through the eyes of the developers who will improve and maintain it in the coming years. It seems Google's open source browser currently has much to offer approaching hackers — with the proviso they use Windows. Quoting: 'The Chromium site explains how to load the source code for Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows. Unfortunately, if you're eagerly awaiting a Mac version of Chrome, you shouldn't hold your breath. As the Mac OS X area of the Chromium pioneer site explains, "Right now, the Mac build is a work in consecutive that is much closer to the start than the finish." In fact, proper to the latest status report, the Chrome developers have yet to get even the browser core running under Mac OS X. layout actual Web pages is still a long way off, to say nothing of a usable Aqua GUI. Then again, the Linux version is in arguably even worse shape.'"

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