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    Sep232009

    IE6 can be fixed with "Chrome frame" and web developers are happy!

     

    Chrome Frame is a new open-source product from Google that promises to answer web developer dreams. It’s a free plug-in for IE6, IE7 and IE8 that turns Internet Explorer into Google’s Chrome browser!

    IE6 should have been retired from public service many years ago, but we’re still adding silly CSS workarounds and testing for XmlHttpRequest objects to make pages work. Web developers may rant hysterically about the shortcomings of IE, but the browser is steadfastly ingrained into many corporate environments that depend on legacy web applications. Even home users eschew upgrades and alternative browsers to retain their simpler, tab-free web existence.

    Google shares our pain. They’re committed to HTML5 and products such as Google Wave are likely to fail abysmally in IE. Their solution is elegant — if not a little sneaky

    Read more here

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