Over the weekend I was researching some new web technologies and stumbled across a new plug-in for Internet Explorer (IE). It’s called Google Chrome Frame, and it solves some big problems in the current development cycle for web apps.
Many people don’t know this, but a lot of time is devoted entirely to making IE (especially older versions) behave properly with W3C standard based browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, Opera, etc.). This makes developing for the web more complex than it needs to be because most browsers function as you would expect them to. Unfortunately, IE is used by most users across the planet, so the fact that it isn’t based on current standards and behaves oddly isn’t something that we developers can ignore. This is where Google-Chrome-Frame comes to the rescue.
Google Chrome Frame is a plug-in for IE that uses Chrome’s rendering engine inside of IE, so instead of asking users to download a new browser they can stay within the comfort of IE, which they are familiar with using. So now, users don’t need to do anything but download a plug-in (one of the simplest tasks, this is just like installing Flash) and they are ready to move into the world of HTML 5. Sites that use Google Chrome Frame will also render faster using Chrome’s rendering engine and give users access to their V8 JavaScript run time. If I were to say that IE is Popeye, then Google Chrome Frame is the spinach. It’s still Popeye, but he can do more, and do it faster.
For a better understanding of what this all means, and how it will help both developers and users, check out this short video that explains some of the points I’ve covered.
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