re: Finally, an update for IE6 (It's NOT from M$)
Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob wells
(1591 messages posted)
Not so fast there Bucko! Looks like the good news is fraught with less than good
news.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4063
Too bad cause IE8 only runs for 15 seconds then crashes on my machine.
Install/Uninstall X4. I bought the CD to avoid D/L on dialup. :-( :-0
Article indicates Chrome Frame is out for Developers. Not even Beta yet.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/180181.asp
On Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 12:13 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>In an effort to get its latest online offerings
>to work for folks who are stuck with The World's Worst Browser[1],
>Google is offering a fix for Internet Exploder.
>cache
>of http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/180181.asp
>
>The way they have made HTML5 and other 21st Century Web improvements
>work with the browser that has the worst standards compliance is via a plug-in.
>What the plug-in does is
>substitute the WebKit HTML rendering engine used by Google's Chrome browser
>in place of M$'s tired old Trident engine
>and substitutes Google's V8 JavaScript rendering engine for M$'s sorry JScript engine.
>(JavaScript rendering speeds improve by a huge factor.)
>In this mode, all that is left of Internet Exploder is the User Interface.
>(Since Chrome itself--i.e. the UI--won't work under Win9x, this is significant.)
>
>You knew that M$ would never again pay the slightest attention to IE6.
>Google, however, has made sure this works with even that decrepit old thing.
>
>The big downside (if you're already using a Gecko/Mozilla browser)
>is that WebKit/Chrome doesn't have the extension infrastructure that Gecko has.
>This means no AdBlock, no NoScript,
>nor none of the thousands of amazing tweaks that Firefox/SeaMonkey can have
>that make the 'Net a less dreary place.
>
>
>[1] If you can believe it, there are some corporations
>who locked themselves into intranet apps that ONLY work with ActiveX
>--and only the version of ActiveX that comes with IE6.
>As such, they can't upgrade their browsers--not even a later version of IE.
>Note also that you can only have ONE version of Internet Exploder
>installed on any Windoze box.[2] Truly stupid all around.
>
>[2] Assuming no virtualizing software.
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