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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. Makes you wonder... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...if Google is going to pull the embrace, extend and extinguish routine on Microsoft. I hope I live to see that day.

    1. Re:Makes you wonder... by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Interesting

      ...if Google is going to pull the embrace, extend and extinguish routine on Microsoft. I hope I live to see that day.

      Well, it should certainly be embarrassing for the IE development group at MS to have their Arch Nemesis add these features to their product. Chair throwing time? But what could be holding Microsoft back? It's not like they don't hire phd coders just like Google, both places are swimming in overachievers. Must be a management problem...

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  2. Don't stop now! by Aphoxema · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think I see Google starting a new tag... "letmefixthatforyou"

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  3. 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.

  4. Re:8 hours a week by icebraining · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, no.

    Google Docs is based on two applications: Writely, by Upstartle, and XL2Web, by 2Web Technologies.
    Google Earth was originally named Earth Viewer and it was created by Keyhole, inc.
    Google Maps was created for the company Where 2 Technologies.

    Code and Scholar search, in spite of being useful, are nothing more than variations of Google Search, so from that list only GMail was truly created at Google.

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  5. Re:So, Basically.. by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google are taking the matter into their own hands and actually putting resources towards improving IE, because they know that MS will not do it in any reasonable way.

    Prediction: when YouTube dumps Flash, the new 'YouTube installer' is this.

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  6. Microsoft schizophrenia by Cow+Jones · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This whole thing should be very embarrassing for Microsoft... but apparently it isn't. Microsoft is co-sponsoring a conference about SVG, which is being held in Google's Mountain View complex, of all places. That in itself is disturbing enough, but to think that the one company that's prevented SVG from gaining traction on the web is now pretending to be interested in SVG (as opposed to promoting their Silverlight tool as the only *real* solution) is, excuse me, fucked up.

    If they really want to help the advancement of SVG, they should finally release a browser which implements it natively. Apparently every other browser vendor can do it. For IE, at the moment, we have to rely on a fragile JavaScript/Flash workaround provided by Google.

    I'm really not ranting about Microsoft just for the fun of it; I'm usually pragmatic, bordering on stoic. But I (like many others here) have spent weeks and months trying to work around Microsoft products' shortcomings, and this kind of hypocrisy is making me angry.

    CJ

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