Google has unveiled software to help developers to take
advantage of open web technologies on Microsoft's Internet Explorer
(IE) web browser.
Google
Chrome Frame is a software plug-in for IE that will run new web
technologies like HTML5 that are not yet supported by IE.
"Developers can't afford to ignore IE because most people use
some version of IE so they end up spending lots of time
implementing work-arounds or limiting the functionality of their
apps," said a posting on
The Chromium Blog.
To make use of Google Chrome Frame, developers simply put a meta
tag in their code and IE users must install the open source plug-in
from Google.
The tag: will enable IE users with the plug-in to have web pages
rendered automatically by Google Chrome Frame instead of IE.
This means applications developed to take advantage of Google
Chrome's HTM5 capabilities and faster JavaScript processing power
will run in IE.
"Google Chrome Frame enables these features within IE with no
additional coding or testing for different browser versions," the
blog post said.
VIDEO: Google software developer Alex Russell introduces Google
Chrome Frame