Google Upgrades Internet Explorer With Chrome
Google has released a Chrome Plug-in for Internet Explorer in an effort to please those still stuck using Explorer for one reason or another.
Plenty of people are still using Internet Explorer 6 because their place of work won't upgrade to the updated version of Microsoft's browser. With the introduction of Chrome Frame, Google is looking to help employees move on without forcing their bosses to do the same.
Chrome Frame essentially transforms Explorer into Chrome by bringing an open HTML5 and other technologies to IE. Google engineers working on Chrome Frame say that the purpose is to help developers take advantage of the latest open web technologies.
"Recent JavaScript performance improvements and the emergence of HTML5 have enabled web applications to do things that could previously only be done by desktop software," wrote software engineers Alex Russell and Amit Joshi, along with project manager Mike Smith. "One challenge developers face in using these new technologies is that they are not yet supported by Internet Explorer. Developers can't afford to ignore IE — most people use some version of IE — so they end up spending lots of time implementing work-arounds or limiting the functionality of their apps," the trio continue.
Russell, Joshi and Smith go on to say that with Google Chrome Frame, developers can now take advantage of a faster Javascript engine, support for technologies like HTML5's offline capabilities and <canvas>, to modern CSS/Layout handling.
Peep the video below for more or check out Google's Chromium blog.
A simple deployment is no longer a simple deployment once you have 2 guys doing this on over 300 PC's at 11 at night.
A simple deployment is no longer a simple deployment once you have 2 guys doing this on over 300 PC's at 11 at night.
You right and that is why Google's solution is brilliant. See when the employee visit a web page that has the meta tag set it will trigger the IE's automatic install of the needed plug-in. Unless the IT stuff has setup a policy that prevents the plug-in to be installed, all employees who needs HTML5 will get "upgraded" without any assistance from IT guys. Only problem I see is MS releasing and IE update that black-lists the Chrome Plug-in. If MS does that I can bet that European Commission will go after them with even bigger fine this time.
Yes. I know. I am in the same boat. That is why sicundercover got +1 from me. At the same time I see the potential of Google's approach. I can change the security policy in my AD and then the users will get upgraded without my assistance. So if you are web developer and you need extra feature offered by HTML5 you could take advantage now instead waiting for MS and overworked IT stuff to upgrade the IE. If this framework become popular the web developers will need only to support one standard version of their apps. I really wish you to benefit directly from that.
that won't werk when you have convoluted accounting software that runs on .NET and requires desktop MS SQL engines... let's not forget the backend licensing issues that come from terminal serving...
i really need to get out of municipal IT...
Being a web developer myself, I cringe everytime a new version of a browser, or a new browser all together comes out - nothing is more frustrating than having your css layout-based site look perfect in one browser, and fall apart in another - although things were supposed to be more consistent and standards based - seems to be going opposite! I hope this plug-in plays well with css . . . rant over
That would have been a lot easier 5 years ago, but with the current economy its tough to get a single penny out of the Execs. You can try explaining things to them all you want but they just glaze over.