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Google is losing one of its strongest champions on the web. Alex Russell, who led the Fugu project to make web apps as powerful as those running on Google’s Android software or Apple’s iOS, is leaving the company on Wednesday. From a report: Russell announced his departure on Twitter. He doesn’t give up out of anger or being expelled. But after 12 years at Google pushing his vision for a more powerful web, “I need some free time,” he said in an interview. Russell has been an outspoken advocate of the web, using Chrome’s dominance to help test and introduce new capabilities that allow programmers to build interactive apps on the web, not just relatively static websites. Project Fugu embodies this effort, as does the broader progressive web app, or PWA, motion that allows you to install and launch web apps more like those that run natively on smartphones and PCs.
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