Google’s Chrome Frame is an open source plugin for Internet Explorers 6, 7, and 8 that essentially replaces the built in rendering engine with WebKit and Chrome’s Javascript VM.
What’s the point? The only reason anyone ever uses IE is to download another browser or view web pages that were foolishly designed for it.
I think we’ll be seeing this pushed in Google Pack or suggested by GMail, YouTube, etc. alongside Chrome. According to the Google Code page, developers need to do as little as add a single tag to direct IE users to the Chrome Frame download page. If someone’s too reluctant to use Chrome, adding a plugin to Microsoft’s bulky browser might be a little more painless, from the user’s perspective, and it lets Google control exactly how its applications are displayed.
Update: Although it’s written on the download page, it’s important to note Chrome Frame is for “Windows Vista and XP SP2.” I’ve tried it on both Windows 7 and Windows XP SP3, and it didn’t work in both cases (Windows simply used Trident, even after a reboot, despite Chrome Frame being active in the plugins manager).
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