On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Nimish Gautam <ngautam(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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 page says "Note: This is an early-stage release, intended for
developers and testing." It doesn't sound like it's ready for us to
use yet. I've heard anecdotal reports of stability problems (no, no
source offhand). Moreover, it's not clear to me whether it would
integrate correctly with all IE features. If we do use it, it could
only be after significant testing that demonstrated it's actually a
clear improvement.
It might be worth making this an opt-in feature now, though.
Adventurous IE users can try it out and report whether they like it or
not, or if they spot any bugs. If they do, we can tell them to file
them with the Chrome Frame team.