Google Chrome Frame
Chrome Frame is all about improving the web, not hurting it, functioning as a back-stop against browsers that just aren’t keeping up.
- Alex Russel
In case you’ve missed it, Google has released a plugin for IE that will render as in Chrome (WebKit). All you need is a simple meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1"/>
This thing is hot. The Google Group is abuzz. I had to switch to daily digest after receiving 40 emails over a span of about four hours. Looks as though more than just Google is ready for IE to catch up.
I am really excited about this myself, but keep in mind this is still very early. Google’s own sites don’t appear to have the tag yet, but I expect they will soon.
What tickle’s my mind most, however, is what Google is really about to unleash. We know about Wave. What else is out there? I have been touting the benefits of SVG as a platform, and this and Google’s other recent release of svgweb sure seem to put a lot of emphasis on SVG as the potential graphics platform of choice. Could it be Google is going to go head-to-head with Flash and Silverlight with more open standards? Please let it be true!
[Update: Check out this HTML5 introductory video from Google.]