[Noisebridge-discuss] Google Chrome Frame for IE

[Christie Dudley]

There are some sites that have so seriously bought into the microsoft
paradigm that they don't function properly on any other browser.  A few have
begun to support browsers like Firefox and Safari, and probably consider
themselves "progressive".  Although to be fair, doing functionality testing
on every browser out there becomes a real challenge.  (When I was at AGE, we
did testing on like 25 different browsers.  It can be done, but there's a
cost.)  Unfortunately, the majority of browsers out there are still
microsoft.  Definitely one of those "pathetic but true" situations.

Christie
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:

> Glen Jarvis wrote, On 2009/09/22 18:20:
> > For those of you who are web developers and realize that IE is
> > evil....   Google has a very slick answer :)
> >
> > http://blog.chromium.org/2009/09/introducing-google-chrome-frame.html
>
> I don't understand how this is useful? The user still has to install an
> IE plugin, why wouldn't they just start using a not broken browser? Is
> the argument that it's easier to get away with blocking the user from
> viewing a site until the install this plugin better then blocking the
> user and redirecting them to the download page for a newer browser?
>
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