Google Wave and IE: enter Chrome Frame

Posted by David on 20 November 2009 | 109 Comments

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I was curious to see what Google Wave's support for IE would be like being that they claim Wave is an HTML 5 application. When I fired it up in IE 6, 7, and 8 I got this lovely screen (see image). This was a shocker! Apparently Google has developed a plug-in for IE called Chrome Frame that actually runs Google Chrome inside of IE. There had been some effort a couple years ago towards implementing something similar to this with Mozilla/Gecko (http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm), but the work apparently got dropped.

The implications this will have on web developers is bigger thank you might think. If Google Wave is a hit, all the IE users will be forced to use Google Chrome within their instance of IE. As the install base of Chrome Frame becomes more widespread, other web developers can start to take advantage of it and call it from their websites, circumventing all of IE's crappy CSS support and their slow and ancient Javascript engine. IE's market share will start to fall—that is the number of hits actually coming from IE's Trident engine will fall. How easy would it be then for web developers to just stop supporting IE? They could just force you to use this plug-in like Google Wave does. Who knows, maybe we'll finally see the death of IE6. I, for one, would jump at the chance of forcing all my IE 6 users to install this.

I guess this is Google's way of telling M$ to suck it.


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