socialrosiechen: Google Chrome Frame leaves beta, brings HTML5 to legacy browsers

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Google Chrome Frame leaves beta, brings HTML5 to legacy browsers

Filed under: Developer, Utilities, Google, Browsers

Google Chrome Frame, Google's plug-in for bringing HTML5 and the latest Web apps to IE 6, 7, and 8, has reached stable status and left beta. Chrome Frame lets developers of modern sites and Web apps support legacy browsers, with the plug-in handling the HTML5 rendering when a user's old browser -- OK, old version of IE -- can't get the job done.

Chrome Frame is an alternative to more complex hacks that tend to slow sites down, but the beta tag probably scared some developers away. Well, now Chrome Frame is stable, so load times and crashes are way down. Some fairly big-name sites like DeviantART, HootSuite and github have already jumped on the Chrome Frame bandwagon, and I'm sure more will follow their lead.

If you're already using the Chrome Frame beta, you'll be automatically updated to the stable version, and future updates will happen on the same update schedule as Chrome itself. If you're just getting started with Chrome Frame, you can check out Google's handy intro video after the jump.