Chrome Frame: Inject Chrome into IE

[tjstuart]

Anyone else see this ... http://ajaxian.com/archives/chrome-frame

Looks promising for us poor developers that have to deal with IE6 in corporate environments. Still, will probably have trouble convincing corporate IT departments to allow such a plugin.

[danh2000]

Still, will probably have trouble convincing corporate IT departments to allow such a plugin.

Yes, I saw it - I have mixed feelings.

I think the line above hits the nail on the head though - most heel draggers are actually corporate users who's Admins have locked down the rights on the PC and won't allow software (other browsers) or plugins to be installed.

[tjstuart]

I just gave it a try. Seems to work well.

Also, this post on the Ajaxian page is interesting ...

"How long until we are serving up the rendering engine along with the web page? Then you could be 100% sure how a page would look and function for any visitor. Make the browser a virtual machine that can execute any rendering engine code. Add some caching. Install some of the rendering engines by default. Doesn’t seem implausible at all really."

http://ajaxian.com/archives/chrome-frame#comments

Now that would be nice.

[amorworx]

Hi all!

Today I stumbled upon "Google Chrome Frame". In essence it takes over the IE6/7/8 rendering and javascript engine when the webpage being loaded contains a certain meta tag ... check it out on: http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/

[joeri]

Another interesting point by the google wave crew: they're going to _require_ the chrome plugin for IE support. They've decided they're not going to fix IE-specific bugs.

http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-wave-in-internet-explorer.html