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In an interesting move Tuesday, Google released the "Chrome Frame", a plug-in that will allow you to run Google Chrome inside of Internet Explorer. This allows you to take advantage of HTML5 elements (including Canvas), and the V8 JavaScript engine, from within IE.
This could be a full page chrome instance (which could be useful in development and testing), or could be applied to an Iframe inside of a "regular" IE instance. The latter almost sounds to me like a "player based RIA runtime" in the works. However, it has the twist that it's not just a "player", it's the engine from another browser. How useful it is (or will be) is yet to be determined, but it sounds like something to keep an eye on.
You can hear more about it in this video from Google:
Related Links
Chrome Frame on Google Code
http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/
Developer Guide
http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/developers_guide.html
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Cynergy Systems
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This is an interesting concept but I'm not sure if it will help anyone out with the issue of outdated IE6 and IE7 usage.
It's a plug-in so you have to convince people to install it. Granted that getting people to do that might be easier than getting them to install a new browser. Since you have to get people to do something they normally wouldn't do, you can't rely on it. But they do provide prompt scripts which is handy.
Anyone in an environment using IE6 because they are not allowed to upgrade their browser is more than likely in a position that prevents them from installing a third-party plug-in.
But this is something that many people have proposing for quite a while so it'll be fun to see what comes of this.
Finally, some demos would have been nice as I didn't see any.