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Written by Eric Chang - Production Manager
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 Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about HTML 5.
New improvements to JavaScript performance and the emergence of HTML 5 have enabled web applications to do things that could previously only be done by desktop software. One of the challenges developers are facing in using these new technologies is that they are not yet supported by Internet Explorer which happens to be the majority of our users. Since we can't afford to ignore our IE folks, future development towards HTML 5 had always looked like it would have to wait.
Until now...
(pasted from Google website)
"Google has released an open-source plug-in for IE users called Google Chrome Frame. It can be used to automatically force IE to load a website using the same WebKit rendering engine as Google Chrome, complete with its enhanced JavaScript rendering and support for HTML 5 technologies like Canvas and embedded audio and video.
To implement it, all the developer needs to do is add one line of code to a page's header:
If a user is running Google Chrome Frame within the IE browser, the plug-in will detect that line of code and fire up the Chrome engine. The website site gets served inside a Chrome wrapper running within IE. Site builders can load up their pages with the latest CSS and JavaScript enhancements, even those unsupported by Microsoft, and those IE users running the plug-in will be able to see them just fine.
The plug-in accomplishes this engine switching using the IE=EmulateIE7 tag Microsoft built in to Internet Explorer 8 to ensure compatibility with older, quirkier websites.
This is pretty much the height of awesomeness - or audacity. Google wants everyone to start using HTML 5 as soon as possible, but IE doesn't support HTML 5 natively. So, the company hacks Microsoft's browser to run Google's browser inside of it." |
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