On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Nimish Gautam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I really want to turn on Google chrome frame support for the mediawiki
> projects:
>
> http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/
>
> Basically, it would just involve us putting in a meta tag on our pages
> that would trigger an IE plugin Google wrote, assuming the IE user had
> that plugin installed. The plugin essentially causes IE to use google's
> HTML renderer and JS engine, which are much nicer to develop for than
> IE. This won't really solve IE development issues, but would be a good
> move in the right direction as far as I'm concerned.
>
> Any thoughts or compelling reasons why this might not be a good thing to do?

The issues log at the bottom of the developers guide indicate this is
not ready for prime time - i.e. printing doesn't work.

http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/developers_guide.html

More fundamentally, the _user_ should control when a different
renderer is used for websites; not the website!  Currently this can be
done with registry keys.

HKCU\Software\Google\ChromeFrame\OptInUrls

Hopefully they add a GUI to configure the OptIn list, and the ability
to import a whitelist like Adblock and IETab.

fwiw, Mozilla-in-IE was at a similar stage three years ago.

http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/12/xule-what-if/

--
John Vandenberg

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