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Google is turning IE into Chrome
ALCHEMISTS at Google have been working out a way of turning the base lead of Internet Explorer into Chrome.
Last year Google showed off something called Chrome Frame which takes Internet Exploder and turns it into Google Chrome via a plug-in.
Writing in its blog, engineer Alex Russell claims that the plug-in has now grown up to the point where it is ready to move into beta. Of course it will stay in beta for a good few years as Google likes that sort of thing after which time it might become a final version.
To use Chrome Frame, all a user has to do is go here and install the plug-in on either IE6, IE7, or IE8 running on Windows 7, Vista, or XP. However websites will have to add tags to get Chrome Frame to work.
Anyone using Internet Explorer will see the tagged webpages rendered as if they are running the Chrome browser.
The advantage is that you can use IE and still see all those sites that use more modern web standards that IE doesn't yet support, if they add tags to support Chrome Frame. You can view Youtube videos in HTML5-compatible formats in IE with Chrome Frame.
It is too early to tell if Microsoft's release of IE9, which is supposed to support all that sort of stuff, will render Chrome Frame redundant.
However Russell claims that Chrome Frame will push things forward so that everybody can build their webpages with the new HTML5 standards. µ
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Take the most insecure module of IE and use it to host the entire browser context... just to gain access to standards that are still under development... I don't think so.
Installing a plugin to override visual content? This is a baaaaad precedent. Imagine someone getting rooked into installing another such plugin that renders its own phishing sites for you to enter your credentials into.
If you want to see the internet through a different browser, just install that browser, not some hackish plugin.
I'm a big business running on IE6 and we hate upgrading. I've also stopped those pesky plugins from Microsoft and Adobe. A plugin from Google? Never going to get installed.
A product with a really small market and won't affect us corporate businesses still stuck with IE6.