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Google Brings Chrome Renderer, Speedy Javascript To IE

Posted by kdawson on from the behind-enemy-lines dept.

A month after we discussed Google's bringing SVG to IE, several readers let us know that Google is expanding the beachhead by offering Chrome's renderer and speedy Javascript execution in an IE plugin. This effort is in service of allowing IE to participate in Google Wave when that technology's preview is extended in a week's time. The plugin, currently in an early stage of development, is called Google Chrome Frame.

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  1. Google's tactic is well known by Spassoklabanias · · Score: 5, Funny

    First they ignore you..

    Then they laugh at you...

    Then you make plugins for their browser.

    1. Re:Google's tactic is well known by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      It's like the three stages of high school relationships, isn't it? Ignore, laugh, plugin.

      I'm on slashdot. How the hell would I know?

  2. Google is my hero by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google is the wind beneath my wings.

  3. What a good idea by selven · · Score: 2, Funny

    First, sneak your interface into the browser, then you could change the Windows desktop environment, then change the kernel and before you know it we're running 100% open source software.

  4. Re:Firefox Lamers == IE Lamers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Opera is faster than FF, which is faster than Chrome, for loading Slashdot, news sites, blah blah etc."

    Go away idiot.

  5. Re:Makes you wonder... by miro+f · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually I find that often the solution is decided to be "less management". Hundreds of managers get fired.

    But somehow in the end, we end up with more management, even though we have less managers.

    --
    being vague is almost as cool as doing that other thing...
  6. Re:video of Ballmer hearing this news by Air-conditioned+cowh · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd use this new browser to watch Steve's fit when hears google is subverting IE.

    I'd would then like to see the video of Steve watching this video on IE and realising that it uses the HTML5 video tag and is in OGG Theora.

  7. Re:It plays out like a Greek myth by jejones · · Score: 2, Funny

    "This is Google's shots across the bowel."

    Eeewww.....

  8. Re:Excuses, excuses... by BikeHelmet · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can you defend this claim? Because based on my experiences *using* CSS over the last 7 years, there hasn't been a time when any version of IE could even claim they weren't maddeningly, brokenly worse.

    IE properly requires the tbody element when adding DOM tables to a document! :P