[Noisebridge-discuss] Google Chrome Frame for IE

[Brian Ferrell]

Bad things:

Some companies cannot NOT use IE6 because they've been using the same
internal web-based systems for years. And, for better or worse, they
still work, so no money is put towards "fixing them" to work in newer
browsers. Meanwhile, very few employees are willing to use multiple
browsers because they spend so much time in IE already.

Good things:

With minimal effort, you can install Yet Another IE Plugin which makes
the internet work, without breaking compatibility with these remnants
from the dark ages.

By installing chrome frame, you change nothing about IE except that
when a website requests it, chrome will be used instead of IE.

Websites that *need* a better browser finally have some leverage
against users that won't (or can't) switch. "Just install this plugin,
you don't even have to switch browsers".

Big news, IMO. Excited for this to get a bit more stable so we can
continue pushing users away from IE6.

Brian

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 04:29, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> ---
> Pigs can fly given sufficient thrust.
>     - RFC 1925
>
>
> 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?
>>
>> --
>> Rubin Abdi
>> rubin at starset.net
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