Google Chrome Frame

Google Chrome Frame is an open source plug-in designed for Internet Explorer.

The plug-in works with Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8. It allows suitably coded web pages to be displayed in Internet Explorer by Google Chrome's versions of the WebKit rendering engine and V8 JavaScript engine. Web pages are reported to render more quickly with the plug-in.

Development of Google Chrome Frame was required in order for Google Wave, which requires HTML5, to function in Internet Explorer.

Deployment

Web developers can allow their websites to use the plug-in by using the following code on their web pages:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1" />

This will cause the page to render in Chrome Frame for users who have it installed, without changing it for users who do not.

Users can add the cf: prefix to URLs to render them with WebKit and V8 instead of Internet Explorer's built-in Trident engine.

See also

• WebKit
• Google Chrome

External links

• Google Chrome Frame home page
• Chrome Frame announcement
• Mozilla slams Google's Chrome Frame as 'browser soup'