Google Chrome Frame changes Internet Explorer into Google Chrome!

28 Sep 2009 1 Comment

As mentioned before on Geekology (here, here, here, and here), Internet Explorer’s lack of standards compliance, poor performance, and multitude of security issues are the bane of most web developers’ existence.

However, many people are unable to upgrade from Internet Explorer due to workplace restrictions. For this reason Google recently released Chrome Frame, an open source plugin that injects the Google Chrome Browser’s HTML (Webkit) and JavaScript (V8) engines into IE6, IE7 and IE8.

In a nutshell, Chrome Frame turns Internet Explorer into Google Chrome.

Chrome Frame will not break the layout of websites built specifically for Internet Explorer; its superior functionality will only activate if it sees a special metatag in the <head></head> section of a HTML document:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">

The plugin can be downloaded from its page on Google Code here.

 

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