One of the big things on Google’s agenda is their Wave platform which in simple terms is their attempt to bring real-time collaboration to the web. To do that however requires that browsers be able to support the HTML 5 and cutting edge Javascript and while their browser, Google Chrome, can handle it Internet Explorer – especially IE6 – doesn’t have any support for HTML5.
After a frustrating period of trying to get Wave to play nice with IE Google finally decided to approach the problem from a different angle. The result is Google Chrome Frame – an Internet Explorer plugin which for all intents and purposes turns IE into Chrome when you surf to a page that contains a meta tag telling the browser to switch into Chrome mode.
When Google Chrome Frame detects this tag it switches automatically to using Google Chrome’s speedy WebKit-based rendering engine. It’s that easy. For users, installing Google Chrome Frame will allow them to seamlessly enjoy modern web apps at blazing speeds, through the familiar interface of the version of IE that they are currently using. – The Chromium Blog
To enable Chrome Frame in visiting IE browsers that have installed the plugin all developers, and bloggers, have to do is add the following meta tag to their site’s header
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">
If you are interested in finding out more about Chrome Frame as well as grabbing a copy of the plugin head over to the Google code page for the project. In the meantime here is a short video about the project from Google.
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