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Google Updates Chrome Frame, Makes IE Better

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can't-make-it-worse dept.

superapecommando writes "Google updated Chrome Frame, a plugin that embeds the company's Chrome browser engine into rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer, to a beta version. As it did last year, Google cast Chrome Frame today as a way for IE users to instantly boost the notoriously slow JavaScript speed of their browser and let them access sites and web applications that rely on standards that IE doesn't support, primarily HTML5."

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  1. Re:So... by robmv · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because many popular non IE browsers are very difficult to manage on a Windows network environment, not impossible but requires a lot of work and experienced windows admin (something everyone claims to be on their CV but they are not). IE has nice policies to set centrally.

    Firefox (default with no additional AD integration extension) needs .dat files added to the installation directory, you need to code javascript to do anything user related and not globally to every user on that workstation.

    Chrome is the worst, it install on %LOCAL_APPDATA%, not globally, so each user need their own copy (WTF Google %APPDATA% is for data not binaries)

    No experience with Opera on enterprise installations

  2. Re:So We're All in Agreement Then? by Rockoon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I understand you have to be security and performance minded and that there are some issues with codecs and containers but aside from that is rendering HTML5 standards really that complicated?

    Before they are agreed upon, yes.. its really hard to render them.

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  3. Re:So... by M.+Baranczak · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Any Custom Web App built by our company for either ourselves or our clients is 100% designed for IE.

    Well, there's your problem right there.

  4. Remember the old 'Embrace and Extend'? by dreamchaser · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder how Microsoft likes being played at its own 'Embrace and Extend' game ;)

  5. Re:Other WebKit browsers by Darkness404 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But do all of them also use V8?

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  6. Re:HTML5 is not a standard yet - it is in dev by Rovastar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So they are apps designed for a browser platform specfic implementation of a dev version of HTML5. Hardly standards like what was implied........