14 DAY TRIAL // Google is doing its best to promote its Chrome browser and to get people to use newer browsers in general. But it's hard when many people don't even know what a web browser is. Sure, some people may be impressed by JavaScript performance, hardware acceleration and so on, but the vast majority couldn't care less, even though they would benefit from the same things.
This is why Google also tries to educate users on what a browser and the web in general are and how they works. Last year, it debuted a very interesting guide to all things internet, aimed at the non-technical crowd in particular.
The guide, titled "20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web," lives online and is built via HTML5, CSS3 and all of the other modern technologies that make the web great.
The finished project not only did a great job explaining what how the internet works, what a browser does, how to stay secure and son, but it did via a very polished a beautiful interface. The guide reads very much like a regular book and feels very natural.
Now, Google is open sourcing the project, enabling anyone to see how the company built the tool and perhaps use the same technology for various other projects. Google is also making it available in 15 languages, making sure that more people around the world can benefit from the knowledge inside.
The web book is now available in Bahasa Indonesia, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Spanish and Tagalog.
"When we published the illustrated HTML5 web book, 20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web, late last year, we were excited by the positive response from teachers, web developers and many of you who shared in the joy of rediscovering how the web works," Cory Ferreria, Localization Lead and Min Li Chan, Product Marketing Manager at Google, wrote.
"For those of you who want to tinker with the code and build your own web books, you can now dive into the HTML5, JavaScript and CSS used to build 20 Things I Learned with the fully open-sourced code," they announced.