Last week at the Google I/O conference the search engine giant announced that it would feature “native code” browser applications in its Chrome Web store. The Chrome Web store, scheduled to open later this year, will showcase applications designed to work in its Chrome web browser.
The Chrome Operating System will include Native Client, the Google add-on that verifies and executes “untrusted” native code inside the Chrome browser. Google indicated that Native Client will be an “important part” of the Chrome OS, which is browser-based.
Google announced the release of the initial Native Client Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) earlier this month. The SDK enables developers to enhance web applications using existing libraries that are written in C and C++, along with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.